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From: David Jander <david.jander@protonic.nl>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Cc: HappyPhot <happyphot@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: VFS: Cannot open root device "31:03" or unknown-block(31,3)
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:57:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601021657.35359.david.jander@protonic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c60fab$9fdca6a0$0760120a@photon>

On Monday 02 January 2006 15:48, HappyPhot wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've suffered for many days and "google" almost every where.
> I would like to boot from the flash with jffs2 (i.e. using jffs2 as my
> root /) . But it alyaws shows:
> VFS: Cannot open root device..... (whole message is as below)
>
>   Anybody knows what may cause this ? Please help and
> thank you.
>[...]

You omitted the interesting part of the log output, the bootarguments at the 
very beginning. What is the value of root= ?
Maybe you made the typical mistake of specifying /dev/mtd3 instead 
of /dev/mtdblock3, or you didn't compile in support for mtd access as a block 
device?

Greetings,

-- 
David Jander

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-02 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-02 14:48 VFS: Cannot open root device "31:03" or unknown-block(31,3) HappyPhot
2006-01-02 15:57 ` David Jander [this message]
2006-01-03  2:48   ` HappyPhot
     [not found] ` <200601031410.55884.david.jander@protonic.nl>
     [not found]   ` <004701c611a8$557dbf00$0760120a@photon>
2006-01-05  7:52     ` David Jander
2006-01-06 14:09       ` HappyPhot
2006-01-06 14:19         ` David Jander
2006-01-06 15:08           ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-01-09  8:45             ` David Jander
2006-01-09 13:05               ` Wolfgang Denk

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