Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932747AbWEXNtO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932748AbWEXNtO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:14 -0400 Received: from [198.99.130.12] ([198.99.130.12]:36267 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932747AbWEXNtN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:49:20 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: UML boot failure with kinit Message-ID: <20060524134920.GA3747@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 22 On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:48:11AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > UML now compiles on 2.6.17-rc4-mm3, but it fails to boot: > > [...] > kinit: do_mounts > kinit: name_to_dev_t(98:0) = dev(0,0) > kinit: root_dev = dev(0,0) > kinit: trying to mount /dev/root on /root with type ext3 > kinit: Cannot open root device dev(0,0) > [...] > > Adding 'root=ubda' to the command line cures it. hpa fixed this yesterday. Something in klibc didn't support decimal mm:nn device specifications. Jeff - 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/