hastenthunder <hastenthunder@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install AMD64 version of GENTOO and fdisk cannot find
> /dev/hda.
> The dmesg command show that /dev/hda does exist, but neither fdisk nor ls
> can see it.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

I hit the same problem recently; whatever the problem was, it was with
creating the link/device node -- running "mknod /dev/hda b 3 0" fixed the
problem, and after running fdisk, the devices for /dev/hda1 ... hda7 were
all populated properly.

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