Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:33:36 +1000 |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:43, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:56:40AM -0500, Tom Felker wrote: > > I finally booted 2.6.0-test1-mm2, after reading somebody else who needed > > to use hex in the root= argument. root=/dev/hdb1 and root=hdb2 would > > panic ("VFS: Cannot open root device hdb1 or unknown-block(0,0)"), but > > root=0341 worked. Devfs is compiled in, devfs=nomount and devfs=mount > > make no difference. Is this intentional? > > Yes. If you use devfs you have to use devfs names for root=. It's > pretty simple. Best option of course is to avoid devfs.
ie use
root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1
or equivalent
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