I wrote:
> I don't know the original posters problem, but I suspect I see something
> similar. On a to be embedded system with a Geode (Cyrix) CPU and with a
> ATA compatible CompactFlash drive I get the following messages on
> bootup:
>
> invalidate: busy buffer
> VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
>
> This seems to happen while the system tries to remount the root fs rw.
The following patch works around the problem for me:
diff -ruN linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
linux-scorpio/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
--- linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Mon Nov 26 14:29:17 2001
+++ linux-scorpio/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Fri Feb 1 12:06:59 2002
@@ -154,11 +154,14 @@
return;
}
+#if 0
/*
* Not an ATAPI device: looks like a "regular" hard disk
*/
if (id->config & (1<<7))
drive->removable = 1;
+#endif
+
/*
* Prevent long system lockup probing later for non-existant
* slave drive if the hwif is actually a flash memory card of some
variety:
It's obviously not a general solution but I know for sure that
the flashdisk is not removable in our setup.
Regards
Joerg
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Regards
Joerg
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