Re: 2.5.68 oops booting with initrd

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:50:17AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> The patch you supplied (check disk->minors != 1 before calling 
> devfs_remove_partitions) did not apply do 2.5.68; the code in 
> fs/partitions/check.c has changed since your base version. However, 
> hand-editing to do the same check has solved the problem.
> 
> I'll Christoph supply a patch, since he's the one that's been working in 
> that whole devfs area.

And 2.5.58-bk1 is completly different again but should have fixed it.

Make sure you apply the following diff when using devfs, though:


--- 1.1/fs/partitions/devfs.c	Sat Apr 19 20:57:36 2003
+++ edited/fs/partitions/devfs.c	Mon Apr 21 17:11:33 2003
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 {
 	char dirname[64], symlink[16];
 
-	if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0')
+	if (disk->devfs_name[0] == '\0')
 		sprintf(disk->devfs_name, "%s/disc%d", disk->disk_name,
 				disk->first_minor >> disk->minor_shift);