On 12/7/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm adding a 300GB hdd to a older P4 with intel D850MV mobo > > Running updated box as of 2 days ago. On bios inspection, this drive > appears to be properly recognized, size etc. > > On bootup the dmesg record shows it being seen and recognized > (hdc in this output). You may notice it is already partitioned and > the partitions are recognized too. I did that from a knoppix session > with fdisk. (On this same box) so knoppix was able to see and > partition it. > > When booted up under gentoo, fdisk does not see this disk and complains > of not being able to open /dev/hdc/ There is no /dev/hdc. The > symlink was not created. Further the name gentoo uses of the form: > > ls -l /dev/hdb lrw [...] /dev/hdb -> ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc > > One would expect an ide/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/disc for /dev/hdc > > How are these created? What is likely the cause of it not happening > by default?
Names of this form can only be created by devfs (or a seriously customized udev install). Are you still using devfs, and if so, why??? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
