On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Bob S <911@sanctum.com> wrote:
Hello SuSE people.
Running 11.2 with KDE4.3.5. I have several different OS's on my machine and several different partitions which are common to them all. ie. /datastorage, /mediastorage, /backup etc which I can access from each OS. Each of those are listed in my 11.2 fstab. I had the same setup when I tried 11.1.
I am unable to mount them in 11.2 getting the message "Hal Device Volume Permission denied. /dev/hda? is listed in fstab but refuses to mount". I was able to get around that in 11.1 (something aboutPolicy Kit) but darned if I can remember what it was that I did.
Would some kind soul out there jog the gray matter and put me on the right track?
Bob S
I don't think policykit etc. is your issue. You say /dev/hda? I'll assume that is not a typo. Back in 10.0 days that was the only way to do it. Since 10.3 or 11.0 the default is to use /dev/sda? naming, but you can still override that via a boot time argument you put in your grub menu. If each of your multi-boot options has its own /etc/fstab you can make a different choice for each. But, if you want to have just one way to handle this you need to decide which of the below you want to do: 1) Switch to mount by label, or mount by guid, etc. This is the recommended approach, but I just had a 11.1 to 11.2 upgrade blow up because I was using mount by guid. I'm back to /dev/sda? style on that box. 2) stick with /dev/hda? and ensure your grub menus have the override in them to use the legacy drivers/ide interface 3) switch to /dev/sda? but you need to sure your oldest distro can handle that. If they can, you must have the override in place for them, so you will need to take it out if you switch. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org