From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Tom Felker <tcfelker@mtco.com>
Subject: Re: root= needs hex in 2.6.0-test1-mm2
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:33:36 +1000
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:43, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:56:40AM -0500, Tom Felker wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes.  If you use devfs you have to use devfs names for root=.  It's
> pretty simple.  Best option of course is to avoid devfs.

ie use

root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1

or equivalent

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