Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:43:51 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 |
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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.
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