2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Eric Buddington]

With 2.5.51 (gcc-3.2, Athlon, mostly modules, DEVFS=y, DEVFS_DEBUG=y),
boot panics with "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
03:01".

I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.

-Eric

Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:18:35AM -0500, Eric Buddington wrote:
 > With 2.5.51 (gcc-3.2, Athlon, mostly modules, DEVFS=y, DEVFS_DEBUG=y),
 > boot panics with "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
 > 03:01".
 > 
 > I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.

Sounds similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110
Does enabling UNIX98 pty's fix your problem ?

        Dave

Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Serge Kuznetsov]

>  > I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.
> 
> Sounds similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110
> Does enabling UNIX98 pty's fix your problem ?

I have the same issue, even with
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS = Y
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS = Y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT = Y
CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG = Y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS = Y

I am trying to invistigate problem closely for now.


All the Best!
Serge.

Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Serge Kuznetsov]

> >  > I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.
> > 
> > Sounds similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110
> > Does enabling UNIX98 pty's fix your problem ?
> 
> I have the same issue, even with
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS = Y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS = Y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT = Y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG = Y
> CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS = Y
> 
> I am trying to invistigate problem closely for now.
> 

I've got email with recomendations, and removed CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG. The issue has been solved.

All the Best!
Serge.

Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Helge Hafting]

Eric Buddington wrote:
> 
> With 2.5.51 (gcc-3.2, Athlon, mostly modules, DEVFS=y, DEVFS_DEBUG=y),
> boot panics with "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
> 03:01".
> 
> I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.
> 
> -Eric
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Booting anything later than 2.5.48 with devfs configured
either needs an extra kernel parameter, or a code change.  
Something broke when do_mounts.c were reorganized.
It doesn't matter wether devfs is used or not, as long as it
is configured.  

The lilo solution:
lilo tend to have a "root=/dev/hda1" or similiar.
This gets converted to "root=0301" on the kernel command line.
(Look at dmesg after a successful boot)

But this don't work for some reason when devfs is configured.
Use the following:

append="root=/dev/hda1"

to solve the problem.  This isn't converted to numbers and works.
Of course if you use auto-mounted devfs then you don't
have a /dev/hda1 but a /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
instead.  If so, use that as root instead. You still have
to use the append= trick.

The code solution:
Edit init/do_mounts.c
Remove the following lines from the beginning of
the function prepare_namespace:
#ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
        sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL);
        do_devfs = 1;
#endif
Then recompile, and the kernel should work with any lilo setup that
worked for 2.5.47 and earlier.  At least it worked for the setups
I tried.

This has no effect on kernels without devfs, and helps for kernels
comiled with devfs wether devfs is used or not.
I posted a patch for this, but there were no interest at all.


Helge Hafting

Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Gregoire Favre]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:00:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:

TREMENDOUS: without those four ligns, I can boot 2.5.51 ;-)

Thank you very much!!!

> Booting anything later than 2.5.48 with devfs configured
> either needs an extra kernel parameter, or a code change.  
> Something broke when do_mounts.c were reorganized.
> It doesn't matter wether devfs is used or not, as long as it
> is configured.  
> 
> The lilo solution:
> lilo tend to have a "root=/dev/hda1" or similiar.
> This gets converted to "root=0301" on the kernel command line.
> (Look at dmesg after a successful boot)
> 
> But this don't work for some reason when devfs is configured.
> Use the following:
> 
> append="root=/dev/hda1"
> 
> to solve the problem.  This isn't converted to numbers and works.
> Of course if you use auto-mounted devfs then you don't
> have a /dev/hda1 but a /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> instead.  If so, use that as root instead. You still have
> to use the append= trick.
> 
> The code solution:
> Edit init/do_mounts.c
> Remove the following lines from the beginning of
> the function prepare_namespace:
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
>         sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL);
>         do_devfs = 1;
> #endif
> Then recompile, and the kernel should work with any lilo setup that
> worked for 2.5.47 and earlier.  At least it worked for the setups
> I tried.
> 
> This has no effect on kernels without devfs, and helps for kernels
> comiled with devfs wether devfs is used or not.
> I posted a patch for this, but there were no interest at all.

	Grégoire
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Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Mohamed Amr Elayouty]

Eric I have a bug open on bugzilla for this.

The only workaround I know is by enabling CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=Y under
character devices.

Mohamed El Ayouty

Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Eric Buddington]

This fixed my problem (though now it doesn't find init, *sigh*)

-Eric

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:44:43PM +0000, jordan.breeding@attbi.com wrote:
> Are you using grub to boot?  If so try using something 
> like /dev/discs/disc0/part1 or the full ide /dev pathname for devfs to boot 
> with instead of /dev/hda1.  I have a scsi disk subsystem and have to 
> use /dev/discs/disc0/part9 instead of /dev/sda9 to get devfs to work.
> 
> Jordan
> > With 2.5.51 (gcc-3.2, Athlon, mostly modules, DEVFS=y, DEVFS_DEBUG=y),
> > boot panics with "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
> > 03:01".
> > 
> > I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.
> > 
> > -Eric
> > -
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