No HDB/HDC/SDA/SDB

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Fri May 14 15:24:22 CEST 2004


On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Justin Beckley wrote:
> Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:54:51PM -0400, Justin Beckley wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to setup autofs for students on CD, Floppy, and ZIP 
> >> drives.  The problem is that in the past couple of installs, when the 
> >> machine reboots there is no HDB/HDC/SDA/SDB.  The only drive that 
> >> shows up initally is fd0.  I have watched the boot up messages as 
> >> best I can, and there are problems with some of them.  Some modules 
> >> say "FATAL: module_name not found".  I have checked in 
> >> /var/log/dmesg, /var/log/kern.log, and other log files, but I can't 
> >> find the error messages.  I have grepped in /var/log for FATAL, but 
> >> it never shows up.  Does anyone have any clues as to what could be 
> >> happening or what I should do to fix it???
> >>   
> >
> >
> > Provide us with more information.
> >
> > What is the hardware that you are using?
> > Which kernel do you give to the computer that you are about to install?
> >
> The computer I am having problems on is a Dell Optiplex GX 150.  It has 
> a Lite-On CDRW drive, Iomega 250 MB ZIP, floppy.  The ZIP drive is on 
> IDE0 as hdc.  The CDRW is on IDE1 as hdc.  I am using kernel 2.6.3.  I 
> just built a 2.6.6 kernel, so I might try booting with that and see what 
> happens.  Thanks.
> 
> JB

Hey Topquoter!

Does the self build kernel work?


Cheers
Geert Stappers
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