On 19 Feb 2010, at 05:49, James Homuth wrote:

> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and  
> after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I  
> currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they  
> don't exist. But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic  
> purposes, it sees them just fine. Also, and this is the strange  
> part. It boots no problem, so the OS is able to mount at least /dev/ 
> hda3, even though from the command line I'm not seeing it. I'm  
> probably missing something completely dead obvious (it's after  
> midnight here and all), and Google's turning up nothing, so if  
> someone could kindly slap me in the face with it, that'd be  
> appreciated. Thanks either way for whatever help comes my way.

I would try to help, but your text is too small.

This is why you should post in plain-text format.

Stroller.