From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262134AbTDHWSs (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262174AbTDHWSs (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:18:48 -0400 Received: from [12.47.58.221] ([12.47.58.221]:43490 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262134AbTDHWSo (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 18:18:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:28:53 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Alistair Strachan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.67-mm1 Message-Id: <20030408142853.74709a82.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <200304081741.10129.alistair@devzero.co.uk> References: <200304081741.10129.alistair@devzero.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Apr 2003 22:30:15.0852 (UTC) FILETIME=[6D72F6C0:01C2FE1E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alistair Strachan wrote: > > On attempting to boot this kernel, I get the following just before init: > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 > > 2.5.67 base works fine. I discovered that reverting the following > patches allows me to boot. I can increase the granularity of my search > if nothing comes immediately to mind: > > aggregated-disk-stats.patch > dynamic-hd_struct-allocation-fixes.patch > dynamic-hd_struct-allocation.patch > Ah, good detective work, thanks. It looks like the hd_struct dynamic allocation patch has broken devfs partition discovery somehow.