[Yaird-devel] Bug#343042: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: Boot aborts with message '/bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev: No such file or directory'

[Cesare Leonardi]

Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686
> Version: 2.6.14-5
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Right after I upgraded linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 to 2.6.14-5 and rebooted, boot 
> is interrupted with repeated messages:
> 
> /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev: No such file or directory
> 
> until it finally stops completely, with message:
> 
> Device /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev seems to be down
> 
> I'm having to reboot with 2.6.12.

This happened to me too.
I followed more or less the same steps as Paulo:
- upgrade linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 from 2.6.14-4 to 2.6.14.5;
- fail to reboot with the error messages above that appears 4 times with 
increasing delay, saying: "Waiting X second for /sys/block/hda/dev to 
show up";
- reboot with kernel 2.4.27 then download and install
linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 to have a system fully functional.

More info related to my system:
Sony Vaio VGN-B3VP
Debian unstable

Cesare.