Question, about drive assignment when boot drive is sata

[Gene Heskett]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I have a friend who's had drive failures out the yang over the last
>> week, and is involved in trying to install FC5 on his main server which
>>  has several other drives in it.
>>
>> The boot drive, and the one he's installing FC5 to, is on a Promise SATA
>> card.
>>
>> On the reboot after the install, it fails after unpacking vmlinuz, and
>> immediatly after 'starting udev', it fails the e2fsck of /dev/hda1.
>>
>> We've looked at grub, looks good, as does /etc/fstab, so we have NDI
>> where, or why its looking for /dev/hda1 when it should be looking for
>> /dev/sda1.
>>
>> I'm assuming this is probably a 'duh' item, but I don't have any SATA
>> stuff, so I'm out of ideas.  Whats the usual culprit for this?
> 
> Things to check...questions to ask....
> 
> 1.  What are the errors?  You don't say.
> 
"fails the e2fsck of /dev/hda1."  As in can't find it at all.

> 2.  Was the original drive a PATA and now you have a SATA?
> 
This I do not know, but I'll find out in the next few hours.

> 3.  Check the /boot/grub/device.map file for "(hd0)     /dev/sda".
> 
> 4.  If the answer to 2 is "yes" did you create a new initrd file for the
> running kernel?

New FC5 install, from scratch.  I should also state that he is using the 
re-spun FC5 release, from the dvd's iso.

> 
> 5.  You've looked at your grub.conf and fstab and you "think" there is
> no problem....but we've not had the opportunity to do the same.  You may
> want to consider having folks here take a look-see.

First, its not my box, and yes, we're not exactly newbies at grub.conf 
nuances.  If he could boot it, he could post those, but I'm not too sure
I want to type all that as he reads it to me from 1000 miles away.

Since I had narrowed it down to the reboot after the install that was 
failing, I figured that this sort of a problem was a known problem, with 
a 'duh' type fix.  The box is his home networks server/gateway, and with 
it down, he'll have to reconfigure a bunch of cat5 to get a local hookup 
online.

Thanks.

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Cheers, Gene