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From: "Alan Miles" <alanmiles@hfx.eastlink.ca>
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Subject: RE: Problem with 2.4.19/2.4.20-pre7 multiple root floppy disks-2.4.18 works.
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 18:51:51 -0300
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Alan,

Thanks for your reply - I appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing.

My experience to-date with the kernel is to compile it - not to try and fix
something. However, I could try and fix it,
although I feel it would be better for the kernel maintainers to fix it, as
I am inexperienced with Linux kernel level
programming; I come from an application programming arena.

Pat, I am cc'ing you on this so you know what is going on - this is the
root-disk problem that I emailed you about.

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
Sent: September 14, 2002 17:28
To: Alan Miles
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: Problem with 2.4.19/2.4.20-pre7 multiple root floppy
disks-2.4.18 works.


On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 21:08, Alan Miles wrote:
> I reported this problem with 2.4.19 and have just tested the 2.4.20-pre7
> kernel. The same problem exists there.
> I must re-iterate that 2.4.18 works fine with all of my 7 uncompressed
> 1.44MB floppy disks, and the 2.4.18 system boots up fine.

Yes its in my bug list. Its up to someone it matters to to provide
patches. It could be a ramdisk change. it could well come from the
initrd loading cleanup/root ramfs stuff.