[Sussex] A kernel question (!)

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:44:36PM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > I'll assume that your running devfs here - mainly because it is the only
> > way I can think of a possible cause.
> 
> I am running devfs, indeed
> 
> > My guess would be that for some reason on 2.5.63 the link from /dev/hdb2 to
> > the device /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2 (or something link that)
> > is not around when the file system is mounted.
> >
> > As an experiment try changing the fstab to use the full devfs names and see
> > if that works.  I expect that it will.
> 
> Nice idea, but no cigar for you... the full devfs path is equally unavailable 
> and ends up with the same result (arse!).. getting a little lost.. :-(

I wonder if it is a timing thing.  Is your new machine, with a gcc 3.2 compiled 
set of binaries, to fast for one of your disks?  I take it you've checked 
dmesg and that both hda and hdb are being reportted at boot time.
 
> Going to dive in and see what I can find...

Keep me posted - I want to know what the cause of this one is.

Steve