Bug#266220: Kernel 2.6 mistakes IDE-SCSI disks?

[danielebenegiamo@fastwebnet.it]

Hi,

I think to have found the problem and a solution (or a workaround?!). Searching
in Google this seems to be a problem occured to a lot of other people using
Debian with 2.6 kernel.

Problem: the 2.6 kernel manage my SATA device as SCSI but it's configured
to manage it as IDE (right because my disk is not SCSI), the result is the
kernel panic message.

Solution/Workaround: in grub config file ("/boot/grub/menu.lst") change
"root=/dev/hdX" to "root=/dev/sdX", in "/etc/fstab" change all "/dev/hdX"
in "/dev/sdX".

Now I can boot with a 2.6.7-1-386 kernel image.

But I'm not a "linux-hacker", so can someone confirm me that this solution
is *safe* (no data corruption and so on) and that is the *right/better*
solution available?

Regards,
    Daniele.