squeeze mipsel initrd.gz cannot find my disks...

[David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have a mipsel system (Cavium OCTEON) running kernel version 2.6.32.27, 
and I am trying to install squeeze on it.

To do this, I have extracted the 
squeeze/main/installer-mipsel/sb1-bcm91250a/netboot/initrd.gz image onto 
a Compact Flash device.  The kernel is then booted using the CF as a 
root filesystem.  All this seems to work fine as the installer starts to 
run on my console and can find the network and configure it using DHCP

However when I get to the part where it tries to find disks I get:



         ┌────────────────────┤ [!] Detect disks ├────────────────────┐
         │                                                            │
         │                   No partitionable media                   │
         │ No partitionable media were found.                         │
         │                                                            │
         │ Please check that a hard disk is attached to this machine. │
         │                                                            │
         │     <Go Back>                               <Continue>     │
         │                                                            │
         └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


From a different shell, I can see that /proc/partitions contains all my 
disks (both the CF being used as '/' and an 82GB SATA device) and they 
are in /sys as well.  But the udev doesn't seem to be populating 
/dev/with them.

Any pointers as to how to get it to see the disks?  I think I am almost 
there.

Thanks in advance,
David Daney