Re: [*VIP*] Re: Strange! Cannot use JFFS2 as root

["colin" <colin@realtek.com.tw>]

Hi Eugene,
The Kernel I use is 2.6.4, and I donot see the entry you mentioned.

Regards,
Colin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eugene Surovegin" <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: "colin" <colin@realtek.com.tw>
Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:30 AM
Subject: [*VIP*] Re: Strange! Cannot use JFFS2 as root


> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:02:26PM +0800, colin wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I had booted up Linux with nfs root, and write a JFFS2 image to
/dev/mtd1.
> > Here is my cmdline for Kernel:
> >      go 0x80305018 root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=172.19.26.145:/nfs/rootfs
> > ip=172.19.27.193::172.19.27.254:255.255.254.0:::
> > mtdparts=maltaflash:1536k(ldr),2048k(root)
> >
> > After writing the JFFS2 image to /dev/mtd1, I can mount /dev/mtdblcok1
to
> > some directory.
> >     mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock1 /mnt
> >
> > Next, I hope to boot up Linux with JFFS2 root, and try to give this
cmdline
> > to Kernel:
> >     go 0x80305018 rootfstype=jffs2
> > mtdparts=maltaflash:1536k(ldr),2048k(root) root=/dev/mtdblock1
> >
> > and the Kernel would complain me about no root:
> >     VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> >     Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
> >
> > I traced the code and found that when passing "/dev/mtdblock1" to
> > name_to_dev_t() in do_mounts.c, it would return 0 at every try_name(),
> >  which will fail at open() with the path "/sys/block/%s/dev".
> >
> > What's the problem? Could anyone tell me?
>
> What is the kernel version you are using?
>
> Check that root_dev_names array in init/do_mounts.c has an entry,
> which looks like
>
> { "mtdblock", 0x1f00 }
>
> --
> Eugene