-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/07 22:56, Gmail wrote: > Hello. I'm running the 'testing' release. I found that once I upgrade > to the 2.6.18 kernel my box wouldn't boot. > > The boot lines in my grub's menu.lst lines are (with different > variations for version number): > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 > > What appears to be happening is that while the kernel starts to boot, it > seems to change the drive letter of the disk containing the / partition > to /dev/hde. I'm not entirely clear about the boot process, but I > believe this happens when the initrd partition is mounted. > > No amount of futzing with the fstab seems to come up with a > configuration that will work for me. > > If I boot to single user mode, I can usually manage to manually mount > the other filesystems. So for instance, while all my system partitions > are on the same physical drive, I currently have the following: > > # mount > /dev/hde1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) > proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) > procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) > /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda7 on /var type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda8 on /home type ext3 (rw) > > > That is, /usr, /var, and /home are mounted with /dev/hda* and / is > mounted as /dev/hde even though it's the same drive. > > The boot drive is on an HPT366 controller, not the motherboard's > built-in IDE controller. > > Is this something I can fix by configuring udev somehow?
Following the Nick Boyce's path: a self-built kernel which has the filesystem drivers compiled-in might not suffer this problem. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFxhV3S9HxQb37XmcRAt12AKDowangmKlCB1wpMcuy29aWzmSJVwCfcdbd N9mXfiRT7DVmdF9ivC92EsE= =S2Uv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
