udev vs SATA Drives

[Net Llama!]

On 02/11/2006 05:45 AM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Ugh. I have a SATA drive -- works fine once it is mounted. For the
> purposes of the current issue, I have sata_sil, the driver for my SATA
> controller, compiled statically into the kernel (i.e., sata_sil isn't a
> loadable module).
> 
> I have a swap partition on the /dev/sda1 and an XFS partition on 
> /dev/sda2. I'm running a custom kernel on Slamd64, a 64-bit Slackware
> clone.
> 
> If I disable udev and use a static /dev directory, the system boots,
> turns on swap and mount /dev/sda2. All is well.
> 
> If I enable udev, the system boots, tries and fails to turn on the swap 
> device and tries and fails to mount /dev/sda2. Error messages are:
> 
> ...
> SGI XFS with large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
> mount: special device /dev/sda2 does not exist
> swapon: cannot stat /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
> Using /etc/random-seed to initialize /dev/urandom.
> ...
> 
> So, clearly udev isn't seeing the SATA device early enough in the boot
> process to set up the /dev entries before they need to be sused.

Which kernel version & udev version are you using?  All of the above 
(with silicon image SATA controllers) works fine in RH/FC distros.


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