Le lundi 13 juin 2005 � 00:58 -0400, john doe a �crit : > Sorry, I triggered the send button before finishing. Here is the full story: > > My installation procedure is as follows: > 1. Install Sarge with a single IDE drive attached to the machine; > 2. after a successful installation, attached a SATA drive the machine, > did cfdisk/mke2fs, added into /etc/fstab to make /dev/sda1 mount at > startup. > 3. restarted machine again, here is the error message (roughly): > > Device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist or invalid > fsck failed. Please repair manually. > CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup > > Yet if I remove the line in /etc/fstab, and the startup will be okay > and I can manually do "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and mount /dev/sda1 without > any problem. So my suspicion is that the related ata kernel modules > are not loaded when fsck tries to look into the drive. I'm also > suspecting this problem wont happen if the sata drive were present at > the time of installing sarge. So now how can fix this problem at the > post-install stage? I'll probably looking the modprobe family of > tools...
look at modconf it will let you choose the sata driver, and will make your choice permanent > > -jd > > ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com **********************************************************************
