Bug#358740: initramfs-tools: 0.57b : fails to boot from /dev/hde (33, 0) - /dev/root not found

[Wladimir Mutel <mwg@mwg.dp.ua>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.57b
Severity: normal


	Hi,

	I have a system with 2 IDE controllers, first is 
	VIA vt8233 driven by via82cxxx 	and second is PDC20267 
	driven by pdc202xx_old. My root fs is on /dev/hde. Once I 
	updated kernel to 2.6.16 (smp), and initramfs-tools to 
	0.57b, and resulted vmlinuz+initrd failed to boot. 
	It said it could not find /dev/root, although in 
	busybox I could find perfectly good /dev/hde, then do
	mknod /dev/root b 33 0 , then exit busybox, and all booted well.
	Reverting back to kernel 2.6.15 did not help much, but reverting
	to initramfs-tools 0.55b solved the problem. So, something has
	to be made with 0.57b to make it as useful as before.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.01-4   Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                          2.6-11     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils                   1.2.4-1    small statically-linked utilities 
ii  udev                          0.087-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

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