Somehow after recent system update I'm unable to find any drives in the system.

I see all of them in Bios, Grub finds them as well, but while loading the kernel and booting system to console they are missing.
fdisk -l shows nothing (but somehow it did show me 1 drive for 5 minutes and then it was lost as well)

I suspect that it was caused by udev and hal update, but I did etc-update and recompiled the kernel to a newer version (but with the old config) and it didn't work.

I'm able to boot in the system and somehow work in it, although on the boot stage I get errors like /dev/sda1 is missing

Any ideas?

Distro: Gentoo
kernel 2.6.34-r1

I had this yesterday.

Mine had changed from being called /dev/hda1, to /dev/sda1

but you say your already using /dev/sda....

Only other thing I can think of is maybe there was a update to the /etc/fstab, but that wouldn't explain why fdisk -l couldn't see them I dont think.

Sounds to me like *smiley* is on the right track...

Depending what kernel version you were running previously, you may have upgraded to a version which now (by default) uses the /dev/sda naming system for drives, instead of the /dev/hda method. Unless you explicitly change your kernel configuration and recompile it to use the previous method (if the previous method is indeed what you were using), then you will need to change your fstab file and maybe your GRUB config as well, to reflect this change.

You do mention you used the old config to build the new kernel, and I do too, but at one point if I recall correctly, I did have to ensure that I was still using the old method.

I would get a second opinion by booting up another Linux Live CD and check the "fdisk -l" there. If the full set of disks are reported that it has to do with the updates might have errors inside.

In any way I don't get any drives on `fdisk -l`
If the problem was only on mount step because drive letters were changed i would see them then in the output of fdisk.

From liveCD fdisk works fine

I'll try to post my boot log here.

Ignore this post :<

Padawan.AVT,

"fdisk -l" reports every disk even if it is a raw disk direct from a purchase so mounting has got nothing to do with it.

Since you can boot from a hard disk, which is missing, then the kernel must be faulty for unable to report the hard disk it is residing in!

Here is the log of my last boot:

http://fsk.in.ua/md_strg/Temp/messages

As you see, my drive was detected, but I cannot see it in the system (although I'm working from it in console)