From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Schanda Reply-To: ma1flfs@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5-mm4 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:30:04 +0100 References: <20030922013548.6e5a5dcf.akpm@osdl.org> <200309221317.42273.alistair@devzero.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200309221317.42273.alistair@devzero.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309221530.17062.ma1flfs@bath.ac.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alistair J Strachan , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 September 2003 13:17, Alistair J Strachan wrote: > -mm4 won't mount my ext3 root device whereas -mm3 will. Presumably this is > some byproduct of the dev_t patches. I don't think this has to do with ext3, since my root xfs partition can't be mounted either. > VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or hda2. > Please append correct "root=" boot option. > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda2. same over here, except replace hda2 with sda3 and (302 with 803 of couse). > 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. I disabled mount at root and created some device nodes, but it still doesn't work, befor that I had pure devfs. Reading the config help for devfs says it's obsoleted, and stripped down to a "bare minimum to not break anyting". Does that "bare minimum" include hard disks? Florian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/bwdvfCf8muQVS4cRAmQ0AJ9N6WBJIOKholW9Rf2QV6wdxlWyHACeNsoP niBAErfeLd0NR0WR6ElKOhU= =Iysp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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