2.5.48-bk4 still impossible to mount root.
None of the 2.5.48- bk or mm kernels lets me mount root, while 2.5.47 works fine. It doesn't matter wether it is a smp machine with scsi raid-1 or a up with plain ide.
Possibly some devfs change that went into 2.5.48? I have been using devfs for a long time now. Most people don't, and they seems able to run 2.5.48.
Helge Hafting
Quoted 2 lines · Helge Hafting
None of the 2.5.48- bk or mm kernels lets me mount root, while 2.5.47 works fine.
You have to use the long devfs name, e.g. rather than /dev/hda1 use /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1.
I don't know whether this is change is intentional or not or which changeset is responsible.
Quoted 7 lines · Luca Barbieri
Quoted 2 lines · Helge Hafting
None of the 2.5.48- bk or mm kernels lets me mount root, while 2.5.47 works fine.
You have to use the long devfs name, e.g. rather than
/dev/hda1use/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1.
What do you mean? My lilo.conf obviously uses the "long" names, because the short ones doesn't exist. It has been like that since I started using devfs long ago.
The kernel don't deal in names when it tries to mount root though, it tries to mount device 03:04 or 09:00
That works with 2.5.47 and all earlier 2.5 kernels, but not 2.5.48.
Helge Hafting