Am 10.02.2010 16:00, schrieb karolina.lindqvist@kramnet.se:
I updated my system, and then on reboot it could not find the disk /dev/sda anymore. A pity, since it hold the boot and root file systems. I have a custom kernel, for various reasons, but now I could not get my custom kernel, of 2.6.32 series, to work with the new udev features, and have no idea what it can be.
(The stock kernel does recognize the disks, but instead crashes on my radeon card, with or without the "fixes" described in the wiki. )
Without the /boot patition it was quite hard to get the system working again. Kernel update/downgrade does not work. I tried to downgrade packages, one after another, until I came to "udev", and after I downgraded it, the system worked normally. So now udev is locked it in a downgraded state.
What is going on?
First, this is an entirely different problem from the original one, which results from changes in udev rules concerning the device-mapper - the latter is not usedin your setup at all. Your custom kernel is misconfigured, the most likely candidate being: $ zgrep CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set If this option is set to yes, udev will fail to create devices properly. If the option is unset in your kernel, we have to look for the reason further.