Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?
Not long after I posted I had a look at my INITRD script and saw "-d 
/dev/hda1" in it, changed it to /dev/sda1, reboot to be done later this 
evening perhaps.

> > 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

If my changes don't work, I shall do that.
Regards
Sid.

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