On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 02:24 +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > > Any idea of how one might go about troubleshooting this further? > I'd investigate how sysfs works in the whole situation, and then work > on from there - since the device doesn't exist in there until after > the partprobe. Perhaps it might also be useful to look into what > partprobe does. In my case, during the boot sequence, it complains of not finding fstab.sys, which isn't there in /etc How do I generate that file? Safely? <g> Ric