udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze

[Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă <I.M.Ciobica@tue.nl>]

Hi,

I just migrate my desktop from lenny to squeeze and after installing all 
new packages and reboot the system hang at the boot process asking for 
the root password because it can't find /dev/sdaX, where X=2,6,7,8,9. 
All are valid partitions. root is /dev/sda5 and it is the only partition 
mounted. fdisk /dev/sda says that /dev/sda not found. Indeed ls /dev/sd* 
shows only /dev/sdY, with Y=c,d,e,f,f1, no /dev/sdZ, where Z=a*,b*. I 
try MAKEDEV sda but it says that because .udev is present it must abort.

I can't use the system in this state. Any ideas?

If nothing I will try to boot with knoppix or the net-install testing CD 
and chroot into the system to attempt a kernel compilation. But I am not 
sure if the kernel is problematic at the moment.

Thank you,
Ionel