[WBEL-users] Respin 2 update install lost my flash drives

Daniel J. Summers daniel at djs-consulting.com
Sat Mar 19 07:54:52 CST 2005


Mark Jarvis wrote:

>
> First let me say that I'm well aware that save/clean_install/restore 
> is the best way to go. But, anyway, I did an upgrade install of respin 
> 2, followed by "yum update" which picked up a couple of things that 
> I'd forgotten had been included in the previous (clean) respin 1 install.

Not that it's any of my business, but why didn't you just "yum upgrade" 
to take your box from R1 to R2?  I'm running the R2 kernel now, but I 
didn't have to reinstall anything.  (In fact, I usually run "yum 
upgrade" (with no package name) every other week or so, as there are 
always new/fixed packages popping up.  Occasionally it can't find 
anything new, but it's rare.

> Booted up. Can't mount flash drives. Phooey! Loaded usbview--BTW, it's 
> a NEAT tool. Got the following error message:
>
> "Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices
>
> Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel,
> have the USB core modules loaded, and have the
> usbdevfs filesystem mounted."

Did you verify these things?  :)  I've never had this experience with 
USB flash drives (have one, but haven't tried to get it going under WBEL 
yet), but I know with other kernel modules, I had to accomplish the same 
tasks I did when I installed, to get the module compiled and linked for 
*that* particular kernel.

I'll be looking for the solution here - I may try soon to get mine 
going.  :)


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