[Bug 32123] Cannot find ide hard disk on boot

[Caleb Moore]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32123

Description changed to:
    After upgrading to dapper drake (through a dist-upgrade) and
    rebooting, my system did not start up.

    I got the following message:

    
    Decompressing Linux...Done
    Booting the Kernel.
    ALERT! /dev/hda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell.

    
    After this I was presented with the standard busybox shell and after checking the /dev directory of the initial ramfs root I noticed that there was indeed no /dev/hda1 or any /dev/hda for that matter.

    As a bit of personal speculation, I think that it might be a problem
    with the associated initrd not having the ide drivers accessable or
    maybe something about its device nodes. I notice that the latest
    package of the amd64 kernel at this time (2.6.15-15) does not have
    inbuilt ATA drivers like breezys did and I think there might be a
    problem getting them loaded up properly.

    I built my own kernel and initrd image with ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL (IDE),
    Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support (BLK_DEV_IDE)
    and Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support (BLK_DEV_IDEDISK) as inbuilt
    options and it booted fine.