Bug#308236: Debian Installer: After successful install system doesnt recognise /dev/ida devices

[Patrick Donker <padonker@sixfold.nl>]

Package: Debian Installer
Severity: important
Tags: patch


I have installed from the 10 may 2005 daily build on a generic P3-866 
system
with a Compaq 3200 Disk Array controller. Everything went well, until 
the system
booted into the newly installed Deb. While starting rcS.d it got to
S30checkfs.sh. The check returned /dev/ida/c0d0p1 is not a valid block 
device.
After getting into the shell I noticed that if I ran /etc/rcS.d/S40hotplug,
followed by mount -a, the devices mounted without problems. If I tried 
mount -a
without first loading hotplug, the invalid block device error came up.
I have renamed S40hotplug to S29hotplug and rebooted, to find that 
everything
ran smoothly; the error as above didnt occur any longer. Maybe it is a good
idea to place hotplug *before* checkfs, as it appears that some devices,
such as the Compaq 3200 Disk Array, need to be detected before a fsck 
can be
succesfully started.
If there are any serious reasons of why hotplug is placed after checkfs, 
please
let me know because I have planned to leave the rcS.d as it is right now.
Thanks

-Patrick

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)