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

[Shawn <core@enodev.com>]

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.
> 
>