Bug#232415: mkinitrd fails on cciss drive hardware

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> bdale, aj -- please see bug #232415. Apparently a deboostrapped system
> does not have the device nodes needed for cciss drive controllers
> (/dev/ssicc/discn/partn). Is this a makedev bug, or a debootstrap bug?
> It doesn't seem likely that it's a d-i bug.

I think it's a d-i vs devfs device path naming problem.  The makedev package
when creating non-devfs entries uses 

     makedev cciss/c${unit}d${ld}p$part b $major $minor $disk

I'm not sure, offhand, what the device path looks like when devfs is involved.

Bdale