From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NQnna-0007HR-RE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:08:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02D87E095F for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21464E07CD for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB1266BD6 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:37:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.463 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.463 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.052, BAYES_00=-2.599, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX=3.188] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ky9qCqlSIHo7 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:37:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B096735B for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NQnJR-00008p-Hq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:37:29 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-198-218.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.198.218]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:37:29 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-198-218.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:37:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:37:06 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1262353732.26846.60.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-198-218.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <1262353732.26846.60.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 697409b6-29fe-44fe-8617-f762da36cef5 X-Archives-Hash: 87dec8666387a6e35a1f777331876933 On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Hello > > My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive > into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for > additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to > be /dev/sda1. The problem is that for some reason when I rebooted this > morning with a new kernel, /dev/sda does not exist anymore... Hm. So the only thing you changed was the new kernel? Might help to know why you built the new kernel. What problem were you solving by doing it? I would try booting the machine without the USB swap disk and then hotplug it when the machine is already running. What does dmesg say then? Can be simpler to interpret when you know exactly which lines were printed in response to the newly connected drive.