From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:57:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163246257.3293.11.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061111114436.GA10020@aepfle.de>
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 12:44 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, jurriaan wrote:
>
> > kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02
>
> These numbers are the root cause.
> Use mount by filesystem UUID. On-disk content does unlikely change.
> And if it does, you have to reconfigure the bootloader anyway.
>
> All this luxury doesnt belong into the kernel.
one thing that we should consider is to not panic(). Panic() tends to
cause the backscroll capability to go away.. which is rather useful to
see what went wrong for this scenario...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-11 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-11 8:52 jurriaan
2006-11-11 11:44 ` Olaf Hering
2006-11-11 11:57 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-11 14:11 ` Matt Domsch
2006-11-11 14:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2006-11-13 16:03 ` Phillip Susi
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