Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:44:44 -0800 | From | Matt Mackall <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301") |
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:10:38PM -0700, Steven Cole wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote: > > >>I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. > >>For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: > >> > >>VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) > >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option > >>Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > >>unknown-block(3,1) > >> > [snipped] > > > >Please set CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y. Check that this causes CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0, > >then retest. > > Yes, that worked. 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 now boots OK, but hdb1 seems to be > missing.
Can you retry CONFIG_BASE_FULL=n with Andrew's patch?
You may need to boot back into a sane kernel for LILO to operate properly.
--- 25/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c~ide_init_disk-fix Wed Feb 23 16:24:44 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Wed Feb 23 16:24:55 2005 @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ide_unregister_region) void ide_init_disk(struct gendisk *disk, ide_drive_t *drive) { ide_hwif_t *hwif = drive->hwif; - unsigned int unit = drive->select.all & (1 << 4); + unsigned int unit = (drive->select.all >> 4) & 1; disk->major = hwif->major; disk->first_minor = unit << PARTN_BITS;
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