Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:40:53 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.68 oops booting with initrd |
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:50:17AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > The patch you supplied (check disk->minors != 1 before calling > devfs_remove_partitions) did not apply do 2.5.68; the code in > fs/partitions/check.c has changed since your base version. However, > hand-editing to do the same check has solved the problem. > > I'll Christoph supply a patch, since he's the one that's been working in > that whole devfs area.
And 2.5.58-bk1 is completly different again but should have fixed it.
Make sure you apply the following diff when using devfs, though:
--- 1.1/fs/partitions/devfs.c Sat Apr 19 20:57:36 2003 +++ edited/fs/partitions/devfs.c Mon Apr 21 17:11:33 2003 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ { char dirname[64], symlink[16]; - if (disk->devfs_name[0] != '\0') + if (disk->devfs_name[0] == '\0') sprintf(disk->devfs_name, "%s/disc%d", disk->disk_name, disk->first_minor >> disk->minor_shift); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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