From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alistair J Strachan Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5-mm4 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:17:42 +0100 References: <20030922013548.6e5a5dcf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030922013548.6e5a5dcf.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200309221317.42273.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Monday 22 September 2003 09:35, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test5/2 >.6.0-test5-mm4/ > > > . A series of patches from Al Viro which introduce 32-bit dev_t support > > . Various new fixes > > Hi Andrew, -mm4 won't mount my ext3 root device whereas -mm3 will. Presumably this is some byproduct of the dev_t patches. VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or hda2. Please append correct "root=" boot option. Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda2. One possible explanation is that I have devfs compiled into my kernel. I do not, however, have it automatically mounting on boot. It overlays /dev (which is populated with original style device nodes) after INIT has loaded. Perhaps there is some other procedure I must complete before I can use 32bit dev_t? [alistair] 01:15 PM [/usr/src/linux-2.6] egrep -e "DEVFS" -e "EXT3_FS" .config CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y # CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set [alistair] 01:16 PM [/usr/src/linux-2.6] dmesg | grep p2 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p4 Cheers, Alistair. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org