/dev broken on upgrade to 2.6.9

From: Matthew Kay (m_kay_at_fastmail.co.uk)
Date: 12/09/04

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    Hi all! Have got a nasty error on upgrading my kernel, using make-kpkg,
    to 2.6.9. I didn't change very much, just wanted to take advantage of
    the updated ACPI code. Specifically, the problem is that /dev is
    completely broken. It shows up but I can't cd into it (Not a Directory).

    I seem to be using udev; I couldn't honestly say whether I was using it
    before, but it is installed (0.046 I think). The errors only start
    coming up after INIT; it says 'Mounting a tmpfs over /dev...done and
    Creating initial device nodes...done' but warns that '.udevdb exists on
    existing /dev'. The errors are all along the lines of not being able to
    find nodes in /dev, and it asks to go into maintenance mode upon not
    being able to find /dev/hda3, my root. Funnily enough, it does mount
    this and I can remount it read-write in the usual way:
         mount -t ext2 -o remount,rw /dev/hda3 /

    My first instinct was to rollback to 2.6.8.1 which worked for me.
    However, since I can't stat /dev/hda, I can't update lilo! I've
    downloaded gnoppix to help, but doe anyone have any ideas as to how I
    can get my system working again?? Please ask if I've left out crucial
    stuff.

    Many thanks,
    Matt (on-list) 

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