[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Joey, > > > Were there device nodes for the disk? > > You mean, whether there has been /dev/hda? Unfortunately I did not look this up (and > I have no chance to access this machine soon). dmesg showed the kernel recognized > everything okay. hda was the Samsung hard disk, hdd (indeed, hdd) was the Samsung > CD-ROM. > > > How did cfdisk fail? > > It said: Error, cannot open device.
This begs the question of how you ran it, if you didn't bother to look for a device node (which would be in devfs syntax, so not /dev/hda). IIRC, cfdisk has to be told the device to run on, you must have told it something or it would have given you a usage message. -- see shy jo
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