From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271114AbTGWGl3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:41:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271125AbTGWGl3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:41:29 -0400 Received: from pro5.mtco.com ([207.179.200.251]:23461 "HELO pro5.mtco.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271114AbTGWGl3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 02:41:29 -0400 From: Tom Felker To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:56:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200307230156.40762.tcfelker@mtco.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I finally booted 2.6.0-test1-mm2, after reading somebody else who needed to use hex in the root= argument. root=/dev/hdb1 and root=hdb2 would panic ("VFS: Cannot open root device hdb1 or unknown-block(0,0)"), but root=0341 worked. Devfs is compiled in, devfs=nomount and devfs=mount make no difference. Is this intentional? -- Tom Felker Try not! Do! or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda