From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:39:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:39:49 -0400 Received: from hermes.domdv.de ([193.102.202.1]:46093 "EHLO zeus.domdv.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:39:39 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.6-3 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <01092119193901.01004@iron.auriga.ru> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:39:03 +0200 (CEST) Organization: D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH From: Andreas Steinmetz To: Nick Ivanter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.10-pre13: Panic mounting initrd Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21-Sep-2001 Nick Ivanter wrote: > Andreas, > > Looks like you somehow haven't compiled ext2fs support into your new kernel. > Try to check that. > If things would be that easy... Snippets from a slight modification to mount_root() in fs/super.c for (fs_type = file_systems ; fs_type ; fs_type = fs_type->next) { printk("VFS: Processing %s\n",fs_type->name); if (!(fs_type->fs_flags & FS_REQUIRES_DEV)) continue; if (!try_inc_mod_count(fs_type->owner)) continue; printk("VFS: Trying %s\n",fs_type->name); And now the results during boot (snippets again): VFS: Processing bdev VFS: Processing proc VFS: Processing sockfs VFS: Processing tmpfs VFS: Processing pipefs VFS: Processing ext2 VFS: Trying ext2 VFS: Processing msdos VFS: Trying msdos VFS: Processing vfat VFS: Trying vfat VFS: Processing iso9660 VFS: Trying iso9660 VFS: Processing nfs VFS: Processing reiserfs VFS: Trying reiserfs Kernel Panic: ... This clearly shows that there's definitely something going _very_ wrong. Best bet is loading/decompression of initrd. As far as I'm following the list there were initrd modifications discussed/done by Alexander Viro/Andrea Arcangeli. Andreas Steinmetz D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH