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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: UML boot failure with kinit
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060524134920.GA3747@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FipyN-0004Hz-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:48:11AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> UML now compiles on 2.6.17-rc4-mm3, but it fails to boot:
> 
> [...]
> kinit: do_mounts
> kinit: name_to_dev_t(98:0) = dev(0,0)
> kinit: root_dev = dev(0,0)
> kinit: trying to mount /dev/root on /root with type ext3
> kinit: Cannot open root device dev(0,0)
> [...]
> 
> Adding 'root=ubda' to the command line cures it.

hpa fixed this yesterday.  Something in klibc didn't support decimal
mm:nn device specifications.

				Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-24 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-24  9:48 UML boot failure with kinit Miklos Szeredi
2006-05-24 13:49 ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2006-05-24 15:46 ` H. Peter Anvin

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