Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again on hdd recognition. It's seen but no fdisk

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/7/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does it have something to do with > the disk not being seen by fdisk? If it shows up in /proc/partitions, and you don't have a device node, then it is a good guess that devfs is the point of failure. I don't know why this would happen though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again on hdd recognition. It's seen but no fdisk

2005-12-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
Harry Putnam wrote: Probably out of sheer stupidity... Does it have something to do with the disk not being seen by fdisk? Actually it is something of a mute point now ... I decided to do a fresh install from (recent) gentoo minimal cd. I see already that at least the install OS has spotted a

[gentoo-user] Re: Again on hdd recognition. It's seen but no fdisk

2005-12-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> When booted up under gentoo, fdisk does not see this disk and complains >> of not being able to open /dev/hdc/ There is no /dev/hdc. The >> symlink was not created. Further the name gentoo uses of the form: >> >> ls -l /dev/hdb lrw [...] /dev/hdb ->