<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 02 April 2009 12:26:53 Stephen J. McCracken wrote:<br>
> Marco Tedaldi wrote:<br>
> > Ron Thompson schrieb:<br>
> >> I spoke too soon. It doesn't boot properly after swapping the<br>
> >> cards, it gets started and them comes back with Checking root file<br>
> >> system fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open<br>
> >> /dev/hdb2 FAILED<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I just read the whole thread again, and realized some significant import of the last line above.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Some distros, like RedHat, are still using /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etcetera. This approach is causing the problems, for the reasons discussed. Distros using more recent IDE/EIDE/SATA setup (available via the same kernels which RedHat uses), are using /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, et cetera, for IDE, EIDE, SATA, and SCSI hard drives.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>This accounts for why (a) two years ago, when I tried to install Puppy Linux on a few machines, I ran into /dev/hdxyz problems just as being discussed now, and (b) in the last week and a half I have installed the current Puppy (using the newer IDE/EIDE/SATA driver sets) on upwards of twenty different PCs, some SATA, some IDE, without a single hard drive or CD-ROM unfound, some with two CD-ROMs, some with four partitions on a secondary master hard drive, et cetera. No matter what the master/slave/primary/secondary situation, they were all found, easily and straightforwardly.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I don't have a list of distros which are using the better IDE/EIDE/SATA driver set; I am very distressed to hear that RedHat is still using the one causing these problems. I do know that Sabayon and Puppy use the newer.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>J.E.B.<br>
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