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SubjectRe: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 : IDE crazy numbers, hdb renumbered to hdq ?
Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 23.02.2005 21:12, Andrew Morton a écrit :
> > Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> >
> >>This kernel came up, but my boot script complained about no /dev/hdb3
> >> when trying to mount /var.
> >> (I have two IDE disks on the same cable, and an IDE cdrom on another.)
> >> They are usually hda, hdb, and hdc.
> >>
> >> MAKEDEV hdq did not help. Looking at sysfs, it turns out that
> >> /dev/hdq1 is at major:3 minor:1025 if I interpret things right.
> >> (/dev/hda1 is at 3:1, which is correct.)
> >> These numbers did not work with my mknod, it created 7:1 instead.
> >> So I didn't get to test this mysterious device.
> >>
> >> But I assume this is a mistake of some sort, I haven't heard about any
> >> change in the IDE numbering coming up? 2.6.1-rc3-mm1 works as expected.
> >>
> >> It may be interesting to note that my root raid-1 came up fine,
> >> consisting of hdq1 and hda1 instead of the usual hdb1 and hda1.
> >
> >
> > I don't know what could be causing that. Please send .config. If you set
> > CONFIG_BASE_FULL=n, try setting it to `y'.
> >
>
> this is just a "me too"...

Confusing. Are you saying that the hdd->hdq problem is happening even with
CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y?

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