mount:special device not found /dev/sda1, dev/sda3, dev/sdb1

chrisR

I'm having real problems getting a once working 1.4 system back up and running after a data loss or SCSI disc problem. These are the immediate problems at boot up.

devfsd doesn't start

Both /dev/sda1 (ext3) and dev/sda3 (reiserfs) return errors which fsck.ext3 and fsck.reiserfs try and succeed to repair. Reporting File system repaired (yellow exclamation marks)

mount: special device not found /dev/sda3 and the same for /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.

Local won't start. Various Respawning messages, delayed for 5mins.

I shut down and boot from install CD, check the drives with fsck, mount all drives without any problem, no errors.

Any solutions?

RagManX · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 1:15 pm Post subject:

Hmmm, maybe a corrupted kernel? Have you tried rebuilding your kernel after booting from your CD? Might need to do that and copy the new bzImage into /boot.

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chrisR · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 2:13 pm Post subject:

Yes, I thought it might be kernel related and it still maybe but I'm probably on my third attempt at a kernel to solve it, but no success yet.