Messages in this thread | | | From | Tom Felker <> | Subject | Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:52:54 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:33 am, Con Kolivas wrote: > 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.
From the perspective of an ignorant user, I kinda like the idea of devfs.
> ie use > > root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 > > or equivalent
Yes, this worked. I guess now my question is, why does /dev/hdb1 work for 2.6.0-test1, but not 2.6.0-test1-mm2?
Also, I just started getting oopses during startup and shutdown with test1-mm2, EIP at ext3_journaling_dirty_data or something similar, followed by a bunch of file not found errors. I'm getting scared, I have valuable data on ext3. I'll be looking into some way to capture this.
-- Tom Felker
Hack user friendliness onto a pure and simple system, because you can't hack purity and simplicity onto a user friendly system.
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