From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261162AbVDRVsp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:48:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261169AbVDRVsp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:48:45 -0400 Received: from web51303.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.169]:6767 "HELO web51303.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261162AbVDRVsg (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:48:36 -0400 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=sofFRIsqHoh81Jt9leAXFZQtM97H71LBA1Ya9cTn7brirKQmFxfjiuZwylgRssmvzcyIFjj/ny/U9NN3CuHbmXv6IqpAx1qmjzqdXiK30G3eqUy6KVDEV0PjFNRNAG9lfxfbqS8yJ9DbCUN/jiTehSkWaDyjeQdyRKrRJiOl2l4= ; Message-ID: <20050418214835.5311.qmail@web51303.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:48:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Pawel Studencki Subject: VFS: Cannot open root device (path_lookup failed) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hello, I'm trying to mount root filesystem on cramfs (2.6.11, compiled with mtd and CRAMFS support), however I get following well known error message: VFS: Cannot open root device "mtdblock1" or unknown-block(31,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(31,1) I've found, that funtion "path_lookup" with "/root" fails with (-2) when called from mount_block_root--do_mount_root -- sys_mount(name, "/root", fs, flags, data); Could this be a problem with initramfs??? Do I need initramfs every time to mount later a real root fs? best regards Pawel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com