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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:36:12 -0500
From: Eric Buddington <eric@ma-northadams1b-112.bur.adelphia.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled
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In-Reply-To: <200212101645.gBAGii6R019092@mail.wesleyan.edu>; from jordan.breeding@attbi.com on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:44:43PM +0000
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This fixed my problem (though now it doesn't find init, *sigh*)

-Eric

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:44:43PM +0000, jordan.breeding@attbi.com wrote:
> Are you using grub to boot?  If so try using something 
> like /dev/discs/disc0/part1 or the full ide /dev pathname for devfs to boot 
> with instead of /dev/hda1.  I have a scsi disk subsystem and have to 
> use /dev/discs/disc0/part9 instead of /dev/sda9 to get devfs to work.
> 
> Jordan
> > With 2.5.51 (gcc-3.2, Athlon, mostly modules, DEVFS=y, DEVFS_DEBUG=y),
> > boot panics with "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
> > 03:01".
> > 
> > I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.
> > 
> > -Eric
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