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From: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
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To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: current linus bk, error mounting root
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Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>Jon Smirl wrote:
>>
>>>Something in the last 24hrs in linus bk broke my ability to mount root:
>>>
>>>Creating root device
>>>Mounting root filesystem
>>>mount: error 6 mounting ext3
>>>mount: error 2 mounting none
>>>Switching to new root
>>>Switchroot: mount failed 22
>>>umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>>>
>>>If I back off a day everything works again.
>>>
>>>Root is on Intel ICH5 SATA drive.
>>
>>dmesg output?
>>
>>Can you verify that -bk4 works, and -bk5 breaks?
> 
> 
> bk4 works. I don't have a serial port hooked up so there is no way to
> get dmesg, but I don't see anything obvious on the screen scrolling
> by.
> 
> I'll check bk5 next.
> 
> It would be much more convenient if the bkN releases were tagged in Linus bk.

Yes, and name them -preN instead. ;)

I had a slightly different problem mounting root with an earlier -mm, which
was fixed by setting CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y.  I saw that option enter the
Linus tree recently, so that might be something you could try.

Steven