hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certain amount of effort, I installed a 2.6.15 kernel & rebooted.
first sign something was wrong came when I found I couldn't ssh into the system. fortunately there's a monitor attached, I found I could log in andthat it had booted fine, but that, while partitions on my scsi bus had mounted fine, none of the hda partitions had mounted properly -- I assume because of udev problems. This may be jumping to ocnclusions though; /dev/sda & /dev/sdb devices exist, but no /dev/hda can be found. I've never had problems with that disk, though, and it seemsunlikely it just failed right when I was installing an ew system! unfortunately /var/cache/apt/archives is a symlink pointing to a directory on another partition. since I can't mount that partition, I can't run apt-get install -f, so can't install udev, so can't fix the absence of device nodes which makes it impossible to mount the partition which makes it impossible to run apt-get ... So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Can anyone give me some advice? thanks, matt -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
