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During the install, I had to install Debian w/ the 2.4 series since I need kernel headers to install my wireless adapter. Appearantly the 2.4 kernel sees my SATA drive ...
  1. 04-22-2006 #1
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    Problems with 2.6.15 kernel + SATA drive



    During the install, I had to install Debian w/ the 2.4 series since I need kernel headers to install my wireless adapter. Appearantly the 2.4 kernel sees my SATA drive as hde and not sd*, so it configured everything that way. So when I was able to download the install the 2.6 kernel the initrd that was created has all the my partitions pointing to hde and not sda! This causes a major issue since my swap and /home directory are mounted by the initrd which calls them from hde5 and hde6 (respectively). So now, when I boot with the 2.6 kernel I get all sorts of error (saying that hde5 and hde6 don't exist) and neither my home directory or swap get mounted/turn on.

    So my question is, is there anyway to get the initrd fixed to point to "sda" and not "hde"?

    I hope I explained all this stuff correctly!
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    You don't need to fix the initrd.

    Just modify /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst to sda instead of hda.
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    <== Feels kind of dumb... I should have known that!

    Thanks
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    Hey, no problemo.
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    Turns out all that didn't matter, I had to move back to the 2.4 kernel cause the new 2.6.15 doesn't want to compile my wireless adapter driver. Now I have another (unrelated) issue... The sound doesn't work in Gnome! Whenever I double click the little speaker I get an error message that says:
    No volume control elements and/or devices found.
    Kinda wierd since it was working just fine when I booted Gnome with the 2.6 kernel.

    It's probably going to be something dumb again, but I'm kinda lost right now!
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