Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] Bug in initrd-handling still there in 2.4.22-pre7 | From | () | Date | 23 Jul 2003 16:16:56 +0200 |
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From original posting (2 weeks ago):
> At work we've encountered a problem when trying to netboot 2.4.21. > After /linuxrc has been executed and the kernel tries to remount the > root, it panics with the all too well known message "Unable to mount > root fs on ...". > > The kernel bugs out in mount_block_root in the file init/do_mounts.c, > to be more precise in the for-loop. What happens is that it tries to > mount the file system as type ext2 (which happens to be first in the > list in our case), but instead of returning -EINVAL it returns -EBUSY, > the loop exits instead of trying the next (correct) fs-type and the > kernel panics.
Patch for 2.4.22-pre7:
--- linux-2.4.22-pre7/init/do_mounts.c.orig Wed Jul 23 16:16:51 2003 +++ linux-2.4.22-pre7/init/do_mounts.c Wed Jul 23 16:16:54 2003 @@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ flags |= MS_RDONLY; goto retry; case -EINVAL: + case -EBUSY: continue; } /* It's been broken since 2.4.19, so I definitely think it's about time it gets fixed. ;>
-- Martin Persson martin@kfib.org http://martin.kfib.org/ http://ss.kfib.org/
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