Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:49 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 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,

Unless you have a separate /boot partition in which case the *upgrade*
will leave you with a system that will not boot. I have reported this in
bugzilla. This happened with the 10.3A2 and 10.3A3 upgrades.

Ken Schneider

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