From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757977AbYCKPGc (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:06:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757794AbYCKPGT (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:06:19 -0400 Received: from n23b.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([69.147.64.243]:45140 "HELO n23b.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757750AbYCKPGR (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:06:17 -0400 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 336165.8707.bm@omp401.mail.sp1.yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=aw0S/ZiEpfZlIDylDJpH6NmDSR8wov+9f+Qq9dQjpHIh8qqNUa07mRO/0H1J8NRkC4DTRv2GYf7GJ9CcliU3dFMS10XiS9JSv8UCryDYm4f5AaxOcPFh4beE8a3V4VaPj8hP5t0JZtFi+6a7ArrYx+VGTusXGkFjwrkd2J0MVqE=; X-YMail-OSG: 0oW_3bYVM1ky25.Qu7sUkCpTQcmwEup_ZK0FZadLl2Cp1nEK3t8UMjPd75PClHM5djk8759QvdYY.fZnRWOsv3QOX0QonWqA3P5jO5FPE6jPs02nAXM- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:06:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Thierry Godefroy Subject: [FIXED][BUG] 2.6.24.x can't boot (sysfs: could not mount) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <15891.73472.qm@web45112.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OK... Sorry about the "noise". I traced the problem down to fs/super.c and a the supermount patch I was using. Fixed now. Sorry again for the false alert... --- Thierry Godefroy wrote: > Greetings, > > I tried to upgrade the Linux kernel to 2.6.24.3 on my laptop computer (Clevo > D470K), which is currently running happily under 2.6.23.17, but the new > kernel > panics at the very start of the boot up sequence (can't even produce a dmesg > to > post here), with the following error: > > sysfs: could not mount ! > mnt_init: sysfs_init_error: -22 > > This computer ran the whole series of 2.6 kernels so far, and I'm using the > same configuration with 2.6.24.3 as with 2.6.23.17. > > It's a "vanilla" kernel with the exception of two patches: supermount (which > is > not even yet active when the panic occurs), and a patch to drivers/acpi/ec.c > (ACPI_EC_DELAY set back to 50ms) because a change in 2.6.20 broke ACPI on > this > computer (slowing everything down to a crawl when ACPI_EC_DELAY is left to > 500ms). > > I also tried with v2.6.24 sources, with the same result. > > Any idea ? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping