Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2

Mark Haverkamp
2006-08-23T17:02:39Z

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:31:03 -0700
> Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > > NR_IRQS is (sometimes) calculated from NR_CPUS via complex means. Reducing
> > > your NR_CPUS should fix things up.
> >
> > It helps. I set NR_CPUS to 8 and got past that problem. Now I can't
> > get the root to mount.
> >
> > Here is some output. I had to copy it from the VGA since this doesn't
> > show up on the serial output.
> >
> > Creating root device
> > Mounting root filesystem
> > mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> > Switching to new root
> > ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!:2
> > error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> > error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> > error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> > umounting old /proc
> > unmounting old /sys
> > Switchroot: mount failed: 22
> > Kernel Panic ....
>
> Looks like early userspace got ENXIO when trying to mount the root fs.
>
> Don't know, sorry. What distro is this running?
>
> It might be useful to diff this kernel's boot log with 2.6.18-rc4's, see if
> we can spot the problem that way.

Sorry for taking so long to respond. When I got back to it this week I
noticed that there was a new mm kernel patch. I updated to it and now I
can boot my system OK.

Mark.

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Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>