Bug#377423: linux-image-2.6.16-2-em64t-p4-smp: Fails to find boot device (AHCI ICH7 Family)

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

reopen 377423
thanks

* Bastian Blank:

> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 04:10:53PM -0400, Andrew Nady wrote:
>> The kernel randomly swaps the /dev/sda to /dev/sde device and back on boot-up.
>> The confusion occurs when the kernel spontaneously 
>> assigns /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd to the USB based card 
>> readers.
>
> The device names are not considered stable. Use udev.

Please make sure that (a) this is documented in the release notes, (b)
the priority of udev is bumped, (c) debian-installer actually puts
path-based device names into /etc/fstab (which it didn't, last time I
checked).  Or fix the kernel and the boot process to deal with this
situation more gracefully.