[CentOS] fresh install of centos looking for non-existant /dev/hda : /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:39:35 -1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> # lvm pvs
>   /dev/hda: open failed: No medium found
>   Couldn't find device with uuid r5HNPO-l18V-XfJ7-9RXY-AaWC-a4YY-3oL5h7.
>   PV             VG         Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
>   /dev/sda2      VolGroup01 lvm2 a-   232.72G     0
>   /dev/sdb1      VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   232.81G 32.00M
>   unknown device VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   232.72G 32.00M
> 
> I just installed the OS, did some tweaks, but did nothing to hardware.
> There was no /dev/hda listed when I went through the partitioning page
> of the install.
> 
> Where did this come from?

I'm guessing you have some sort of IDE CD/DVD-ROM/R/RW drive.

> 
> How do I get rid of it?

Remove the IDE CD/DVD-ROM drive :-)

> 
> Does it matter?

No.

> 
> mahalo,
> Dave
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