[Bug 32123] Re: Cannot find ide hard disk on boot

[Alf Lervåg]

Same happened with me, dist-upgrade from breezy to dapper.  My fix:  wait until busybox drops you to a shell (takes a little while).  modprobe ide-disk; modprobe ide-generic; cat /sys/block/hda/dev; mknod /dev/hda1 b 3 1;C-d # And then I watch as my system continues boot.

My root filesystem is on hda1 as you might've guessed.  cat /sys/block/hda/dev returns the major and minor numbers of hda on your system (3:0).

After this I can use the tips above to make a new and working initrd.img.
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Cannot find ide hard disk on boot
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32123