[Gllug] Disappearing drive device (PATA)

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 26 Apr, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> I have a box with the /boot partition on /dev/hda1 - the BIOS sees it
> and the grub menu, which lives there, comes up at boot time.
> 
> But then the boot sequence reports /dev/hda1 cannot be found and that I
> should use fdisk on it. Fdisk cannot find it, indeed there appear to be
> no device nodes for any /dev/hda* devices at all.
> 
> The box will boot as more or less anything important lives on /dev/sda*
> (ie a SATA disk)
> 
> 
> This problem has just appeared following an update from Ubuntu 7.10 to
> 8.04
> 
   I have just had a problem with a lost ROM drive during a Debian
installation, caused by an IRQ being disabled because it was not allocated
correctly, and cured by booting with irqpoll. Another more lightweight
possible fix suggested is irqfixup. Reference Debian buglist 477988.



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