On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:03:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> I am having trouble getting recent -mm kernels to boot on my test box. > > >> For 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 and 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 I get the following: > > >> > > >> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) > > >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > > >> unknown-block(3,1) > > >> > > [snipped] > > > > > > Please set CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y. Check that this causes > > > CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0, > > > then retest. > > > > Yes, that worked. > > hmm, OK. Matt, we have a block major enumeration problem. It appears that > base-small-shrink-chrdevs-hash.patch has the same problem which > base-small-shrink-major_names-hash.patch had.
Hard to see how that could happen. > > 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 now boots OK, but hdb1 seems to be missing. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] steven]# uname -r > > 2.6.11-rc4-mm1-GX110 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] steven]# mount -t reiser4 /dev/hdb1 /reiser4_testing > > mount: special device /dev/hdb1 does not exist > > It would seem that your /dev/hdb1 block-special device node isn't present. > Try `mknod /dev/hdb1 3 65'. He's got devfs. Something change there recently? -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
