Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze

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

Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
It is funny to mention that booting with a rescue disk and making
a tar file with /dev/sdaX files,which can be used then to (re-)make the
/dev/sdaX at the normal boot make the system usable again.

So, it looks like udev doesn't want to make /dev/sdaX or even worse
it simply deletes those entries...

Ionel