I suspect this is a feature but it seems like .24-rc7 on etch loads sata drivers before ide so root device name needs a manual update in grub. Or perhaps there's some other way out like changin initramfs configuration...
Here's a dmesg too. -Mikko Linux version 2.6.24-rc7-486 (Debian 2.6.24~rc7-1~experimental.1~snapshot.10093) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070718 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-14+2)) #1 Sat Jan 12 01:10:37 UTC 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000002000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 32MB LOWMEM available. Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 8192) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 8192 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 8192 On node 0 totalpages: 8192 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 32 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.0 present. Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 02000000:fdff0000) swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 8128 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda2 ro noapic No local APIC present or hardware disabled mapped APIC to ffffb000 (01042000) Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 512 bytes) Detected 199.907 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Memory: 23920k/32768k available (1728k kernel code, 8464k reserved, 711k data, 320k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfffb3000 - 0xfffff000 ( 304 kB) vmalloc : 0xc2800000 - 0xfffb1000 ( 983 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc2000000 ( 32 MB) .init : 0xc0364000 - 0xc03b4000 ( 320 kB) .data : 0xc02b00f1 - 0xc0361de4 ( 711 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02b00f1 (1728 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 400.57 BogoMIPS (lpj=801148) Security Framework initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Initializing cgroup subsys ns Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008001bf 008005bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 0080013f 008005bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 02 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Freeing SMP alternatives: 0k freed ACPI: Core revision 20070126 ACPI Exception (tbxface-0629): AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES, While loading namespace from ACPI tables [20070126] ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables net_namespace: 64 bytes Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fcfe0 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xd010, dseg 0xf0000 PnPBIOS: 14 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 14 recorded by driver PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) * Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug, * this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources PCI quirk: region e400-e43f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI PCI quirk: region e800-e80f claimed by PIIX4 SMB PIIX4 devres B PIO at 0290-0297 PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 0000:00:01.0 NET: Registered protocol family 8 NET: Registered protocol family 20 ACPI Error (evxfevnt-0186): Could not enable RealTimeClock event [20070126] ACPI Warning (evxface-0145): Could not enable fixed event 4 [20070126] system 00:06: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved system 00:06: iomem range 0x100000-0x1ffffff could not be reserved system 00:06: iomem range 0xe8000-0xfffff could not be reserved system 00:06: iomem range 0xfffe0000-0xffffffff could not be reserved system 00:0f: ioport range 0xe400-0xe43f has been reserved system 00:0f: ioport range 0xe800-0xe83f could not be reserved Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 5145k freed audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1200346844.220:1): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Boot video device is 0000:00:09.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'Analog Devices AD1816' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:03: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 EISA: Detected 0 cards. cpuidle: using governor ladder cpuidle: using governor menu TCP bic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI Shortcut mode registered taskstats version 1 Freeing unused kernel memory: 320k freed thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0b.0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd400, 00:10:a7:1d:24:84, IRQ 10 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' SCSI subsystem initialized 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 PCI: setting IRQ 12 as level-triggered PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 0000:00:01.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 0000:00:09.0 uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 uhci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 12, io base 0x0000d800 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected libata version 3.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:01.1: version 2.12 scsi0 : ata_piix scsi1 : ata_piix ata1: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xe000 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/33 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xe008 irq 15 ata1.00: ATA-4: IBM-DJNA-351520, J56OA30K, max UDMA/66 ata1.00: 4128768 sectors, multi 0: LBA ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2.00: ATA-4: ST340823A, 3.07, max UDMA/100 ata2.00: 78165360 sectors, multi 0: LBA ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA IBM-DJNA-351520 J56O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST340823A 3.07 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4128768 512-byte hardware sectors (2114 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4128768 512-byte hardware sectors (2114 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 78165360 512-byte hardware sectors (40021 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 78165360 512-byte hardware sectors (40021 MB) sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2) ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names parport_pc 00:01: activated parport_pc 00:01: reported by Plug and Play BIOS parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc (0x7bc), irq 7, dma 1 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input0 piix4_smbus 0000:00:01.3: Found 0000:00:01.3 device ns558 01:01.02: activated gameport: NS558 PnP Gameport is pnp01:01.02/gameport0, io 0x200, speed 523kHz mpu401 01:01.01: activated Adding 497972k swap on /dev/sda1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:497972k nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 4096 max) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions eth1: no IPv6 routers present -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]