From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756604AbaIKOxk (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:53:40 -0400 Received: from dovecot.logic.tuwien.ac.at ([128.130.175.61]:47779 "EHLO mail.logic.tuwien.ac.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753364AbaIKOxh (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:53:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 504 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:53:37 EDT Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:45:10 +0900 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: /dev/root changes with 3.17-rc Message-ID: <20140911144510.GK22037@auth.logic.tuwien.ac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) From: Norbert Preining Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi everyone, (please cc) I am not sure whether this is a kernel bug, but: - booting with 3.16 I get / mounted on /dev/sda6 - booting with 3.17-rc* I get / mounted on /dev/root The later case disturbs grub (cannot find root device) as there is no /dev/root. I normally to make oldconfig when compiling a new kernel, all of the above are self-compiled. Thanks Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------