Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936179Ab0GSPkk (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:40:40 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:47976 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935158Ab0GSPki (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:40:38 -0400 To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc4, no boot References: <201007051250.17010.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20100719083340.195d4496.rdunlap@xenotime.net> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:40:34 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20100719083340.195d4496.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (Randy Dunlap's message of "Mon\, 19 Jul 2010 08\:33\:40 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=67.188.4.80;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.188.4.80 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on in02.mta.xmission.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1537 Lines: 46 Randy Dunlap writes: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:42:09 -0700 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Gene Heskett writes: >> >> > Phenom 9550, 4G ram, asus m2n-sli deluxe mobo, all sata drives (4 + optical >> > burner) >> > >> > I have now built 35-rc4 4 times, the last 2 with >> > >> > 2.6.31-12-mdv.config & make oldconfig (lots of accepts), & build >> > >> > And a working .config from 2.6.35-rc3 + make oldconfig (no changes reported) >> > & build. >> > >> > Both fail at the attached image point booting from a grub2 menu on a >> > different drive that has been working with rc3 for quite a few boots but its >> > all bitchy this morning so is booted to the mdv 2.6.31-12 kernel above ATM. >> > >> > Last .config also attached. >> > >> > What do I need to do here? >> >> That does sound bizarre. You have some weird initrd dependency on the >> kernel doing something, but it isn't clear to me what that might be. >> Shrug. >> >> Not being able to mount /dev and /sys feels like they simply weren't >> compiled in. But your config suggests otherwise. > > I would change the second line below to be enabled: > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT is not set > > and give that a shot. That is such a truly evil option. *shiver* Eric -- 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/