Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261678AbVBWXHd (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:07:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261665AbVBWXFG (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:05:06 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([216.27.176.166]:41959 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261661AbVBWXDW (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:03:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:03:13 -0800 From: Matt Mackall To: Andrew Morton Cc: Steven Cole , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (VFS: Cannot open root device "301") Message-ID: <20050223230313.GR3120@waste.org> References: <20050223014233.6710fd73.akpm@osdl.org> <421CB161.7060900@mesatop.com> <20050223121759.5cb270ee.akpm@osdl.org> <421CFF5E.4030402@mesatop.com> <20050223150333.6ce83aef.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050223150333.6ce83aef.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1636 Lines: 45 On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:03:33PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Steven Cole wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Steven Cole 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. > > > > [root@spc1 steven]# uname -r > > 2.6.11-rc4-mm1-GX110 > > [root@spc1 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/