cant open /dev/hda

[David Miller]

Thanks Michael and Thomas,

it was the udev issue, all is working now.
thanks alot

PS: Thomas, also thanks for the good talk at linux.conf.au

David


Michael Tautschnig wrote:

>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm new to FAI so please bear with me.
>>
>>I'm trying to install etch with FAI with nfsroot and PXE booting.
>>the kernel boots but stops at the partitioning of disks, the following 
>>appears in fai.log:
>>
>>sfdisk: cannot open /dev/hda for reading
>>/dev/hda: no such file or directory
>>
>>But I get lines like this in the kernel.log
>>
>>
>><4>hda: attached ide-disk driver.
>><6>hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=158816/16/63, 
>>UDMA(100)
>><6>Partition check:
>><6> hda: [PTBL] [9964/255/63] hda1 hda2 hda3
>>
>>
>>I've tried a number of the fai kernel versions with similar results.
>>any suggestions ?
>>if more logs are needed please tell me, didnt want to spam the list
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Which fai-version are you using? Most likely you are missing the udev-Package in
>your NFSROOT (and thus there is no such file/device as hda in your /dev
>directory).
>
>HTH,
>Michael
>
>  
>



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