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justincataldo
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 Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: /dev link does not exist [SOLVED] |
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I've just done a fresh install on an x86 box. The machine has /dev/hda as the primary drive and /dev/hdc as the cdrom. I want to add another hard drive, either as /dev/hdb or as /dev/sda. The problem was that those devices did not exist in /dev.
I installed hotplug and coldplug hoping this would solve the problem. I now see those desired devices in /dev (as well as a heap of others). But I still can't run fdisk to partition the said devices (so neither an additional SATA or IDE drive is responding).
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w0046 ~ # fdisk /dev/hdb
Unable to open /dev/hdb
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w0046 ~ # fdisk /dev/sda
Unable to open /dev/sda
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How do I fix this?
Last edited by justincataldo on Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:37 am; edited 1 time in total |
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mudrii
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| Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:12 am Post subject: |
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remove from system hotplug and coldplug you should have udev runing for this.
check the information on your drives fdisk -l /dev/sda
check the cables too.
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justincataldo
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Ah ha! After I unmerge hotplug and coldplug it said that I needed to emerge udev at boot. It's all good now.
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