On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: > I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot > time. > > I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create > the device) and is noted as "hda" in the boot messages. > > However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did > exist, though... > > I tried turning off the DEV_TARBALL option in /etc/conf.d/rc and > rebooting. Then there was no /dev/hda* at all. I have created > /dev/hda* with MAKEDEV and turned the DEV_TABALL back on, but I don't > know that that will make any difference, becasue I've created /dev/hda > before and rebooted with the TARBALL option on and /dev/hda still wan't > there. > > I also had someone say that they had to manually modprobe ide_cdrom one > time, but I didn't see that happen this time (maybe someone else did > it...). > > I re-emerged udev, in case a config was corrupted, but no config files > changed and /dev/hda was still not there after reboot. > > I suspect it's a udev configuration issue, but since I didn't change > anything, I'm not sure how it would've broken.
COuld you give more detail about your situation. Is this a new install on this system? ie. liveCD Is this an upgrade of the kernel? or was this just the addition of the DVD-R? -- Lares Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E
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