/dev/ida/c0d0* shows up as /dev/ida!c0d0*

[halo14]

This is a very strange problem, no one can seem to answer it.

Partitioning:
/dev/ida/c0d0p1 /boot ext3
/dev/ida/c0d0p2 swap
/dev/ida/c0d0p3 / ext3

I'm running on a Compaq Proliant 1600 with a Compaq Smart Array RAID5. SMART2 and such drivers built into kernel, using an altered genkernel (genkernel --menuconfig all)

the initramfs boots, but once it starts to load the kernel, it fails saying that /dev/ida/c0d0p3 is not a valid root device.

so I did 'shell' to get the basic busybox shell... an 'ls' of /dev reveals /dev/ida!c0d0[1,2,and 3]

what on earth wouild cause the devices to show up as ida!c0d0pX?

if I tell it boot device /dev/ida!c0d0p3 when it fails on the root device, it boots okay... once the system comes up, the correct devices exits in /dev/ida/c0d0pX

Is this a big in initramfs/genkernel or what?
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[wan-geek]

This actually _JUST_ happened on a box of mine. It's been happily running for like 2 years now without problem, and upon a reboot...the device names are just as you described.

Anybody ever run into a fix for this? Is this some wacky udev freakout or something?

-Chris