Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:01:38 +0100 | From | Gregoire Favre <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled |
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:00:08AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
TREMENDOUS: without those four ligns, I can boot 2.5.51 ;-)
Thank you very much!!!
> Booting anything later than 2.5.48 with devfs configured > either needs an extra kernel parameter, or a code change. > Something broke when do_mounts.c were reorganized. > It doesn't matter wether devfs is used or not, as long as it > is configured. > > The lilo solution: > lilo tend to have a "root=/dev/hda1" or similiar. > This gets converted to "root=0301" on the kernel command line. > (Look at dmesg after a successful boot) > > But this don't work for some reason when devfs is configured. > Use the following: > > append="root=/dev/hda1" > > to solve the problem. This isn't converted to numbers and works. > Of course if you use auto-mounted devfs then you don't > have a /dev/hda1 but a /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > instead. If so, use that as root instead. You still have > to use the append= trick. > > The code solution: > Edit init/do_mounts.c > Remove the following lines from the beginning of > the function prepare_namespace: > #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS > sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL); > do_devfs = 1; > #endif > Then recompile, and the kernel should work with any lilo setup that > worked for 2.5.47 and earlier. At least it worked for the setups > I tried. > > This has no effect on kernels without devfs, and helps for kernels > comiled with devfs wether devfs is used or not. > I posted a patch for this, but there were no interest at all.
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