I had the same thing happen on Friday on a VMWare I use for LAMP development.
Just "Control D" to continue. Your drives should mount as normal. If you have a stock system, /dev/hda3 is where your goods are. Hda1 is just /boot and hda2 is swap, so don't worry about the error. Follow these instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml Or http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Migrate_to_UDEV Or http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html It's pretty painless really. > -----Original Message----- > From: Fredrik Lundgren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:41 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' > after update > > Dear list, > > I haven't used my Gentoo for more than half a year or so (it was well > updated then) so the other night I made an update > > emerge --update system > > and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I > rebooted i got > ---- > * checking root filesystem ... > Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory > * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance > (or Control D to continue):_ > --- > Well I changed to root and tried > --- > df > Filesystem 1K-block used Available Use% > Mount on > 35152904 8113240 27039664 24% / > --- > and > > --- > fsck -t resierfs /dev/hda2 (Confirmed with Yes) > Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory > --- > The file system is there as I can use nano and navigate in > the directory > hierarchy and visit files. > I have, in Win XP, tested the partitions with 'Acronis Disk Director > Suite' and they look OK > and don't have any errors. > > Please, how should this be fixed? > > Best wishes from a somewhat desperate Fredrik > > > > > > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
