Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?

Laurent Riffard
2005-02-24T17:02:03Z

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Le 24.02.2005 00:20, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:
>
>>Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a écrit :
>>
>>>Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3
>>>>when trying to mount /var.
>>>>(I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an IDE cdrom on another.)
>>>>They are usually hda, hdb, and hdc.
>>>>
>>>>MAKEDEV hdq did not help. Looking at sysfs, it turns out that
>>>>/dev/hdq1 is at major:3 minor:1025 if I interpret things right.
>>>>(/dev/hda1 is at 3:1, which is correct.)
>>>>These numbers did not work with my mknod, it created 7:1 instead.
>>>>So I didn't get to test this mysterious device.
>>>>
>>>>But I assume this is a mistake of some sort, I haven't heard about any
>>>>change in the IDE numbering coming up? 2.6.1-rc3-mm1 works as expected.
>>>>
>>>>It may be interesting to note that my root raid-1 came up fine,
>>>>consisting of hdq1 and hda1 instead of the usual hdb1 and hda1.
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't know what could be causing that. Please send .config. If you set
>>>CONFIG_BASE_FULL=n, try setting it to `y'.
>>>
>>
>>this is just a "me too"...
>
>
> Confusing. Are you saying that the hdd->hdq problem is happening even with
> CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y?
>

yes, I do.

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laurent

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