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Re: [opensuse-factory] Changing /dev/hda to /dev/sda
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:49:45 +0200
- Message-id: <ho8xbwvo5y.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> New installs recognise IDE disks as /dev/sd, no problem.
> On this box 10.1 --> 10.2 --> 10.3Alpha3plus via factory updates, my
> disks come up as /dev/hd.
> Changed /etc/fstab from /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to /dev/sda1 and
> /dev/sda2, changed menu.lst likewise, but on reboot it can't see
> /dev/sda1, eventually dropping into a shell prompt.
Did you run mkinitrd and change the kernel modules?
> As of old rdev used to be able to change the root and swap devices to
> whatever you wanted for a kernel. It now tells me that /dev/sda1
> doesn't exist.
> The pata_nv and libata modules are loaded.
> Problem in initrd or grub????
I would do a full update (booting from Alpha CD) - in that case YaST
will do all changes itself for you,
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> New installs recognise IDE disks as /dev/sd, no problem.
> On this box 10.1 --> 10.2 --> 10.3Alpha3plus via factory updates, my
> disks come up as /dev/hd.
> Changed /etc/fstab from /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to /dev/sda1 and
> /dev/sda2, changed menu.lst likewise, but on reboot it can't see
> /dev/sda1, eventually dropping into a shell prompt.
Did you run mkinitrd and change the kernel modules?
> As of old rdev used to be able to change the root and swap devices to
> whatever you wanted for a kernel. It now tells me that /dev/sda1
> doesn't exist.
> The pata_nv and libata modules are loaded.
> Problem in initrd or grub????
I would do a full update (booting from Alpha CD) - in that case YaST
will do all changes itself for you,
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj/
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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