From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268791AbTGTXDD (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:03:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268894AbTGTXDC (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:03:02 -0400 Received: from adsl-206-170-148-147.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([206.170.148.147]:54792 "EHLO gw.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268791AbTGTXDA (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:03:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test1-mm2] unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge To: Florian Huber Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1058738091.5980.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20030720125547.11466aa4.florian.huber@mnet-online.de> <1058738091.5980.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1058743074.4425.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 20 Jul 2003 16:17:55 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 14:54, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Setting root=0303 (in your case) might helps things along. root=0302 works for me, but root=/dev/hda2 and root=hda2 both fail, even though /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev contains good values. Hm, looks like try_path() in init/do_mounts.c generates paths which don't exist. If you specify root=/dev/hda2, try_paths will look in /sys/block/hda2/dev, but it needs to be /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev. I tried playing with it a bit, but then it started trying to mount from hda4 for no obvious reason... But this should be enough to go on with. J