Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262675AbVCJQBX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:01:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262677AbVCJQBX (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:01:23 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.205]:22726 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262675AbVCJP7p (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=m5FqjJXf1knmrPFNxsGuwF6vQX8o8HMYTYr/5XkAZ0qR4AW9IlHI6tPFxRh3TLA8wAEQe5dtoocKM+KqfeZ5zlW2HaOX6a5XVNJrq+OLlbpxJXjMLQpvLrYiogFjwlUdC6Y0lzX4G/zN5bCDW0f3jkyn/NSByyHRKLqHBfkV/v8= Message-ID: <9e47339105031007595b1e0cc3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:59:45 -0500 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: current linus bk, error mounting root Cc: Jeff Garzik , lkml In-Reply-To: <20050310154830.GB2578@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <422F2F7C.3010605@pobox.com> <422F5D0E.7020004@pobox.com> <9e473391050309125118f2e979@mail.gmail.com> <20050309210926.GZ28855@suse.de> <9e473391050309171643733a12@mail.gmail.com> <20050310075049.GA30243@suse.de> <9e4733910503100658ff440e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050310153151.GY2578@suse.de> <9e473391050310074556aad6b0@mail.gmail.com> <20050310154830.GB2578@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1583 Lines: 50 Here's what it is doing... looks like the first mount is failing echo Creating root device mkrootdev /dev/root umount /sys echo Mounting root filesystem mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot mount -t tmpfs --bind /dev /sysroot/dev echo Switching to new root switchroot /sysroot umount /initrd/dev On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:48:31 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:31:51 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > > > > label / is on /dev/sda6 > > > > > > > > Creating root device > > > > Mounting root filesystem > > > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > > > > > > if 6 is the errno, it looks like it is trying to open a device that does > > > not exist (ENXIO). Can you up the verbosity of those commands, I'd like > > > to see what it is doing exactly. > > > > Jeff, how can I up the verbosity? This is on Fedora Core 3 but before > > user space is up. Is there some way to tell the boot ramdisk to > > display more info? > > Perhaps you can mount the initrd and change the script to echo the > commands before executing them? Then boot with the modified initrd. > > -- > Jens Axboe > > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - 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/