Re: 2.6.0-test5-mm4

Florian Schanda
2003-09-22T12:29:19Z

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On Monday 22 September 2003 13:17, Alistair J Strachan wrote:
> -mm4 won't mount my ext3 root device whereas -mm3 will. Presumably this is
> some byproduct of the dev_t patches.

I don't think this has to do with ext3, since my root xfs partition can't be
mounted either.

> VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or hda2.
> Please append correct "root=" boot option.
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on hda2.

same over here, except replace hda2 with sda3 and (302 with 803 of couse).

> One possible explanation is that I have devfs compiled into my kernel. I do
> not, however, have it automatically mounting on boot. It overlays /dev
> (which is populated with original style device nodes) after INIT has
> loaded.

I disabled mount at root and created some device nodes, but it still doesn't
work, befor that I had pure devfs. Reading the config help for devfs says
it's obsoleted, and stripped down to a "bare minimum to not break anyting".
Does that "bare minimum" include hard disks?

Florian
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