Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* jurriaan (thunder7@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> When the kernel mentions it can't mount the root device, all information
> about the 12 harddisks in this system has long scrolled off the screen.
> 
> It would be really nice to see something like this:
> 
> kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02
> Possible devices:

I posted a patch to do this about 18 months ago against 2.6.11rc5:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110946077026065&w=2

As people have pointed out the other problem is the lack of scroll
back after panic; if you have a reasonable number of partitions
then it is a pain.

Dave
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