From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@treblig.org>
To: jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:41:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061111144111.GA28206@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061111085200.GA4167@amd64.of.nowhere>
* jurriaan (thunder7@xs4all.nl) wrote:
> When the kernel mentions it can't mount the root device, all information
> about the 12 harddisks in this system has long scrolled off the screen.
>
> It would be really nice to see something like this:
>
> kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02
> Possible devices:
I posted a patch to do this about 18 months ago against 2.6.11rc5:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110946077026065&w=2
As people have pointed out the other problem is the lack of scroll
back after panic; if you have a reasonable number of partitions
then it is a pain.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-11 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-11 8:52 wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted jurriaan
2006-11-11 11:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-11-11 11:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 14:11 ` Matt Domsch
2006-11-11 14:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2006-11-13 16:03 ` Phillip Susi
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