Warty installer does not create SCSI device
Brian Craft
bcboy at thecraftstudio.com
Wed Feb 9 01:09:24 UTC 2005
Just ran into some variation of this problem. Did an install on a scsi
machine, and after it booted the cdrom wouldn't mount. fstab is pointing
to /dev/scd0, which doesn't exist. There is a /.dev/scd0. Some udev
thing which I don't understand.
b.c.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:43:09PM -0500, ktulu1115 wrote:
>
> Tommy Trussell Wrote:
> > Before I go to the trouble to cause any more disruption here I want to
> > ask about SCSI... is it just too exotic to even be handled by Ubuntu?
> > I was surprised that Ubuntu did NOT set up any of the sg (SCSI)
> > devices in /dev... then I discovered the new Debian installer didn't
> > either (though an "old fashioned" Debian Woody install DOES). The
> > Ubuntu live CD does, and (of course) Knoppix does, too.
> >
>
> That's funny - I have the same problem, just with ATA instead of SCSI.
> All of my drives are SCSI, I have one IDE 200gb drive used for storage.
> I ran into a minor glitch on Ubuntu install, installed stopped at
> installing grub - I think it didn't know which drive to install onto,
> recall I had that problem with Fedora awhile back and had to manually
> specify MBR on /dev/sda - anyways, I figured a quick fix would be to
> disable (disconnect) the IDE drive and do the install. Lo and behold,
> it worked.
>
> However, now I reconnected the drive, booted up, tried to mount... and
> discovered the same problem you had - no /dev/hd* device files. I tried
> putting ide-disk in /etc/modules, but to no avail. Any suggestions
> anyone?
>
>
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