Re: 2.6.0-test2-mm1: Can't mount root

From: Shawn (core@enodev.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 17:06:55 EST


Thank you, I didn't look very closely at the patch (really at all).

The one thing making me think I had it right with "2105" was that the
kernel did seem to grok it as (33,5).

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:47, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Shawn <core@enodev.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm using ide=reverse, and my root is on hde5. 2.6.0-test1-mm2 finds my
> > root fs fine using the init/do_mounts.c patch posted recently.
> >
> > 2.6.0-test2-mm1 (in which said patch seems to have been included),
> > however, fails on all of the following root= options:
> > * 2105
> > * /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
> > * /dev/hde5
> >
> > I don't know what to try next. Can someone enlighten me as to what has
> > been happening lately?
>
> Beats me. Tried "/dev/hde/5" and "21:05"?
>
> Can you see what this says?
>
> 25-akpm/init/do_mounts.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~a init/do_mounts.c
> --- 25/init/do_mounts.c~a Mon Jul 28 14:44:37 2003
> +++ 25-akpm/init/do_mounts.c Mon Jul 28 14:44:53 2003
> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ static dev_t __init try_name(char *name,
> /*
> * The format of dev is now %u:%u -- see print_dev_t()
> */
> + printk("scanning `%s'\n", buf);
> if (sscanf(buf, "%u:%u", &maj, &min) == 2)
> res = MKDEV(maj, min);
> else
>
> _
>
> Also take a close look at the dmesg output, make sure that all the devices
> and partitions are appearing in the expected places.
>
>
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