/dev/hda Missing

[Proponent]

Shortly after installing Mandriva 2005 LE from the cover disc onto my Dell 8300, I had to have the motherboard replaced. When I first booted up with the new board, an error involving the CD drives occurred. With the help of the manufacturer's help line, I solved the problem from the BIOS screen.

Since then, although I am able to boot to Mandriva, the following error message appears:

Mounting local file system: mount: special device /dev/hda does not exist

The lines of /etc/fstab involving CD drives (the machine has two, a CD-ROM and a CD-RW) are

/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom3 auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync, codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

Would anyone be able to give me a pointer as to how to make Mandriva happy with /dev/hda again?

[towy71]

/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

looks about right to me
HTH
Dick

[fingers99]

Is the CDROM really /dev/hda -- that is, the master device on the primary IDE channel? Is the cabling and jumpering correct? Is the drive actually powered (can you play an audio CD by inserting it and hitting the play button)?

[towy71]

I have seen such on Dells
Dick

[Guest]

Shortly after installing Mandriva 2005 LE from the cover disc onto my Dell 8300, I had to have the motherboard replaced. When I first booted up with the new board, an error involving the CD drives occurred. With the help of the manufacturer's help line, I solved the problem from the BIOS screen.

Since then, although I am able to boot to Mandriva, the following error message appears:

Mounting local file system: mount: special device /dev/hda does not exist

The lines of /etc/fstab involving CD drives (the machine has two, a CD-ROM and a CD-RW) are

/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom3 auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync, codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

Would anyone be able to give me a pointer as to how to make Mandriva happy with /dev/hda again?

[youlikeicecream]

Towy are you sure thats right, /dev/hda

this is how my (appropriate) lines of /etc/fstab read :


/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb9 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda10 /mnt/LinMusic vfat rw,user,auto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdb10 /mnt/LinSwap vfat rw,user,auto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/VIDEO ntfs ro,auto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/LACIE vfat rw,user,auto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/WIN_C ntfs ro,auto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

I am using Kubuntu on a Gigabyte K7n400Pro2 (i think) board

my friend is using Madriva LE 2005 on an ECS K7S5a board and his /etc/fstab looks like this :

/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/linswap vfat umask=0,user 0 0


/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom1 auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,managed 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/LACIE vfat pamconsole,exec,noauto,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,managed 0 0

hope it helps
Mike

[baron]

I'm confused. If you have a hard drive, and given that you have installed Mandriva I assume you have, then that should be /dev/hda1. Indeed, as hda is the first part of the disk it is usually used by Windows on a dual boot system or linux. When you installed Mandriva it would have put the Grub boot installer onto the boot partition of the hard drive i.e. hda1. I cannot see how the cdrom can be hda1.

Run dmesg to see what the system is seeing when it boots. You can pipe this to a text file and print it.

baron

[nelz]

I'm confused. If you have a hard drive, and given that you have installed Mandriva I assume you have, then that should be /dev/hda1.

Not necessarily. The only pre-built PC I ever bought had the CD on the primary IDE controller and the hard drive on the secondary. Mandrake (6.*?) installed on it with no problems.

[Guest]

Run dmesg to see what the system is seeing when it boots. You can pipe this to a text file and print it.
baron

baron, the 1st line produced by dmesg ishere are the first two lines produced by dmesg:

AC= SRC=192.168.1.64 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=147 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=232 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=127

and the 2nd is

Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.64 DST=192.168.1.255 LEN=147 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=233 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 DPT=631 LEN=127

The remaining 102 lines are identical to the 2nd line except that the number following
ID= is incremented by one in each successive line.

fingers99, if I put a CD into the drive, KsCD pops up and begins playing the disc. (I can't actually hear anything, but I put that down to some other configuration issue that I need to resolve. KsCD correctly displays the album info, so I'm sure the disc is being read. And the drive works just fine if I boot under Windows XP).

Other points that might be relevant --

1. Yes, I do have a hard drive, which appears to be designated /dev/hdc.
2. Even though I earlier said that /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are CD drives and even though they are described as "cdrom" in /etc/fstab, they are actually DVD drives.
3. Note that hda and hdb are *not* hda1 or hdb1, as they seem to be on most other poster's machines.

[dandnsmith]

Seems to me that the real question to answer is:
At what stage does this mount error message appear.

1. you can boot linux, so that's most of the game
2. a CD appears to be recognised and played - so the appropriate links must be there to link /dev/cdrom to /dev/hda, and the other to /dev/hdb

This leaves something else odd in the fstab
or something in the startup processes

It's worthwhile checking those entries in /dev to make sure they really are OK