Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (528 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donn Washburn wrote:
> Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> > 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
> Another thing I just thought about is "udev".
> Sid are you sure there is a /dev/sda#?

Been there, done that, rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules and 
85-mount-fstab.rules, look the same on the new build x86_64 boxes and 
10.2 --> 10.3 Alpha3 upgrade x86_64 laptop and on this x86 box.
If I use mkinitrd to change rootdev to /dev/sda1, resume to /dev/sda2 
and also fstab, sda1 is seen, but only if I leave menu.list pointing to 
/dev/hda1 as root, sda2 as swap isn't registered. "swapon /dev/hda2" works.
When Alpha4 upgrade hits the streets, I'll see what that does.
Regards
Sid.
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