Thank you for looking at this Francesco. I provide more details below.
-Tracy
-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Talamona
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 1:11 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hda7 does not exist
>On Monday 04 October 2004 13:50, Budd, Tracy wrote:
>> I can no longer mount /dev/hda7. This problem surfaced when I switched
>> from gentoo-dev 2.6.7 to 2.6.8
>[...]
>> I can see that there is no hda7 in /dev, so I would guess it is
>> something simple having to do with devfs or udev. I don't understand
>> either very well, and I especially don't understand why switching to
>> 2.6.8 would cause this.
>
>Maybe you forgot to compile in you kernel the option to support your
filesystem...
>Did you run a "make oldconfig" while switching kernel version?
Yes, I ran "make oldconfig"
>What kind of FS is /dev/hda7 on?
Ext2
>Are there other partitions with same FS? Do you experiment the problem with
this one only?
Yes, /boot on /dev/hdb is also ext2 and mounts correctly, which is why I am
puzzled.
>Please give some more details....
>
>Cheers
> Francesco
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-Tracy
-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Talamona
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 1:11 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mount: special device /dev/hda7 does not exist
>On Monday 04 October 2004 13:50, Budd, Tracy wrote:
>> I can no longer mount /dev/hda7. This problem surfaced when I switched
>> from gentoo-dev 2.6.7 to 2.6.8
>[...]
>> I can see that there is no hda7 in /dev, so I would guess it is
>> something simple having to do with devfs or udev. I don't understand
>> either very well, and I especially don't understand why switching to
>> 2.6.8 would cause this.
>
>Maybe you forgot to compile in you kernel the option to support your
filesystem...
>Did you run a "make oldconfig" while switching kernel version?
Yes, I ran "make oldconfig"
>What kind of FS is /dev/hda7 on?
Ext2
>Are there other partitions with same FS? Do you experiment the problem with
this one only?
Yes, /boot on /dev/hdb is also ext2 and mounts correctly, which is why I am
puzzled.
>Please give some more details....
>
>Cheers
> Francesco
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