From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1uX1-0008Sq-Da for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:49:27 -0800 Received: from fep01-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.41] helo=fep01-app.kolumbus.fi) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B1tnt-0005q0-Cc for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:02:49 -0800 Message-ID: <40522BEB.5060104@kolumbus.fi> From: Sakari Ailus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [uml-devel] 2.6 UML Kernel Woes (re UDB Device) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:30:19 +0200 To: "William R. Lorenz" Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net William R. Lorenz wrote: > When I run the 2.6.3 binary, I get the following error to the console: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "ubd0" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I also started seeing this with 2.6.4-um1. 2.6.0-um1 was ok. > eth0=tuntap,tap3 root=/dev/ubd0 Apparently you can also give root device directly as major/minor pair, i.e. root=98:0 in this case. There have been suggestions to change /dev/ubd0 to /dev/ubd/0, but in my case that didn't work, I have no idea why. Anyway; as the default device is ubd0, root is not even needed... :) -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ailus@kolumbus.fi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel