From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: prashant@pramatech.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1 / 2.6.9-rc3-ds1 jffs2 root mount failure - FAQ
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:38:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097224694.11402.1388.camel@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60299.202.156.2.50.1097211270.squirrel@mail.dotaku.com>
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 06:54, Prashant Alves wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get IXP425 based coyote board to boot with 2.6.8.1 /
> 2.6.9-rc3-ds1 with mtd-snapshot-20041005. I have selected jffs2 to also be
> updated from the snapshot.
>
> However at bootup I get:
> Kernel panic - not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(31,2)
>
> The root on flash is a jffs2 filesystem and I pass root=/dev/mtdblock2 as
> my kernel parameters.
>
> The partition mounts fine when I boot using NFS and do a manual mount. It
> also works fine as root on a 2.4.19-ds3 kernel that I have.
>
> Tracing through it seems get_fs_names() in mount_block_root() in
> init/do_mounts.c fails.
pass rootfstype=jffs2 in the commandline
tglx
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2004-10-08 4:54 2.6.8.1 / 2.6.9-rc3-ds1 jffs2 root mount failure Prashant Alves
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