From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tom Felker <tcfelker@mtco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:43:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030723144351.A3367@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307230156.40762.tcfelker@mtco.com>; from tcfelker@mtco.com on Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:56:40AM -0500
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:56:40AM -0500, Tom Felker wrote:
> I finally booted 2.6.0-test1-mm2, after reading somebody else who needed to
> use hex in the root= argument. root=/dev/hdb1 and root=hdb2 would panic
> ("VFS: Cannot open root device hdb1 or unknown-block(0,0)"), but root=0341
> worked. Devfs is compiled in, devfs=nomount and devfs=mount make no
> difference. Is this intentional?
Yes. If you use devfs you have to use devfs names for root=. It's
pretty simple. Best option of course is to avoid devfs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-23 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 6:56 root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Tom Felker
2003-07-23 12:20 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-23 15:06 ` Florian Huber
2003-07-23 15:48 ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-23 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-07-23 15:08 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-23 18:17 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-23 19:30 ` Steven Cole
2003-07-23 15:33 ` Con Kolivas
2003-07-23 18:52 ` Tom Felker
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