Re: 2.6.0-test3 cannot mount root fs

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>
> I tried as boot cmd line:
>  	s root=03:41 acpi=off
>  and still it didn't work. Same problem.

It is decimal.  You want 03:65.


Could you test this patch?  It should put things back to the way
they were before this mini-fisaco. root=0341 should work as well.


 init/do_mounts.c |   18 ++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN init/do_mounts.c~handle-old-dev_t-format init/do_mounts.c
--- 25/init/do_mounts.c~handle-old-dev_t-format	2003-08-09 16:15:24.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/init/do_mounts.c	2003-08-09 16:17:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -71,13 +71,19 @@ static dev_t __init try_name(char *name,
 	if (len <= 0 || len == 32 || buf[len - 1] != '\n')
 		goto fail;
 	buf[len - 1] = '\0';
-	/*
-	 * The format of dev is now %u:%u -- see print_dev_t()
-	 */
-	if (sscanf(buf, "%u:%u", &maj, &min) == 2)
+	if (sscanf(buf, "%u:%u", &maj, &min) == 2) {
+		/*
+		 * Try the %u:%u format -- see print_dev_t()
+		 */
 		res = MKDEV(maj, min);
-	else
-		goto fail;
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * Nope.  Try old-style "0321"
+		 */
+		res = (dev_t)simple_strtoul(buf, &s, 16);
+		if (*s)
+			goto fail;
+	}
 
 	/* if it's there and we are not looking for a partition - that's it */
 	if (!part)

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