From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Mohamed El Ayouty <melayout@umich.edu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.5.51] Failure to mount ext3 root when ext2 compiled in
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:48:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DFB7D14.149B2B80@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1039875751.10805.3.camel@syKr0n.mine.nu
Mohamed El Ayouty wrote:
>
> I started having that problem since 2.5.48.
>
> I just commented out those 4 lines in init/do_mounts.c:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
> sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL);
> do_devfs = 1;
> #endif
>
> and 2.5.51 now works.
>
OK, the above code was added in 2.5.48. Thanks. I'll bug Mr Viro
about it when the power comes back on over on the East coast...
If you replace CONFIG_DEVFS_FS with CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT there, does
that fix it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-14 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-13 14:35 [2.5.51] Failure to mount ext3 root when ext2 compiled in Mohamed El Ayouty
2002-12-14 10:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-14 14:22 ` Mohamed El Ayouty
2002-12-14 18:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-14 19:06 ` Mohamed El Ayouty
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-13 3:48 Rusty Russell
2002-12-13 4:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-16 21:42 ` Rusty Russell
2002-12-13 14:31 ` Wayne Willson
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