Bug#731660: linux image 486: The system is looking for /dev/hdaX while only /dev/sdaX are available

[Yohann Ferreira <yohann.ferreira@orange.fr>]

Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-486


Objet : linux image 486: The system is looking for /dev/hdaX while only 
/dev/sdaX are available
Date : dimanche 8 décembre 2013, 02:17:01
De : Yohann Ferreira <yohann.ferreira@orange.fr>
 À : submit@bugs.debian.org

Hi there,

I've been updating an Toshiba Tecra today (2005-2006 laptop), and I noticed 
that since that between the kernel version 2.6.32 and the kernel versions 
3.2.0 and 3.11 there is a quite meaningful difference;

When using the linux kernel (linux-image-486) 3.2.0 or 3.11 version, the 
system doesn't start and complains about not finding the /dev/hda2 (which is my 
root system partition). The fact is that there is no hda2, but only sda[1-5] 
there.
The system then prompts me to give a location, and starts when I give 
'/dev/sda2' but only to fail later on as many other scripts complain about not 
finding hda2 as well.

This is currently functionning correctly when using the kernel 2.6.32 as there 
are hdaX nodes there.
Is this a bug? And if it isn't, how can I translate those nodes correctly when 
booting the new kernels?

Best regards,
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