From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Mohamed El Ayouty <melayout@umich.edu>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [2.5.51] Failure to mount ext3 root when ext2 compiled in
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:11:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DFB03E8.C7AB1271@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1039790158.25215.48.camel@syKr0n.mine.nu
Mohamed El Ayouty wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This sounds more like the bug I have opened:
>
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110
>
> where if CONFIG_DEVFS_FS = Y and CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT = Y, you will get:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda2" or 03:02
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> I worked around it by enabling CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS = Y under the
> character devices.
>
> But, a recent update to the bug shows that a patch was posted but nobody
> cared.
>
> Personally, I think the patch should be merged.
You mean this one?
http://www.lkml.org/archive/2002/12/13/50/index.html
It appears to simply disable internal mounting of devfs.
In which kernel did this problem first appear? There were
devfs changes in 2.5.51.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-14 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-13 14:35 [2.5.51] Failure to mount ext3 root when ext2 compiled in Mohamed El Ayouty
2002-12-14 10:11 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-12-14 14:22 ` Mohamed El Ayouty
2002-12-14 18:48 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-14 19:06 ` Mohamed El Ayouty
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2002-12-13 3:48 Rusty Russell
2002-12-13 4:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-16 21:42 ` Rusty Russell
2002-12-13 14:31 ` Wayne Willson
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