Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 02:18:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 02:18:03 -0500 Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([194.138.37.131]:44716 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 02:17:51 -0500 From: Borsenkow Andrej To: zdzichu@irc.pl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OOPS on 2.4.17 -18pre4 while mounting root (reiserfs, on LVM, devfs) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:17:14 +0300 Message-ID: <002c01c19ff0$2885a860$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. > devfs: devfs_do_symlink(root): could not append to parent, err: -17 > change_root: old root has d_count=2 17 == EEXIST Your mkinitrd creates /dev/root in any form and devfs_do_symlink(root) fails. We had the same pornlem in mandrake and Juan ended up commenting it out in fs/super.c: // devfs_mk_symlink (NULL, "root", DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT, // name + 5, NULL, NULL); -andrej - 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/