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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:44:36 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061111114436.GA10020@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061111085200.GA4167@amd64.of.nowhere>

On Sat, Nov 11, jurriaan wrote:

> kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02

These numbers are the root cause.
Use mount by filesystem UUID. On-disk content does unlikely change.
And if it does, you have to reconfigure the bootloader anyway.

All this luxury doesnt belong into the kernel.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-11 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-11  8:52 wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted jurriaan
2006-11-11 11:44 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-11-11 11:57   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 14:11     ` Matt Domsch
2006-11-11 14:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2006-11-13 16:03 ` Phillip Susi

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