From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 20:21:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 20:21:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.home.se ([195.66.35.200]:50485 "EHLO smtp1.home.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 20:21:17 -0400 Message-ID: <000e01c1f6ef$6c1819e0$0319450a@sandos> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?John_B=E4ckstrand?= To: Subject: Re: NULL dereference for nfs-root using 2.4.19-pre8, 2.4.17 is fine Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 02:21:09 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I have been playing around with nfs-root the last > couple of days, using 2.2.x kernels on the bootfloppy. > I only have 16mb ram in the diskless box, so I had to > compile a kernel with NBD to use for swap. I didnt get > this to work with 2.2 kernels, so I tried building > 2.4.19-pre8. (Which I btw had to patch in nfsroot.c to > get compiled, I know this is known though) 2.4.17 works. Havent tried 2.4.18. --- John Bäckstrand