Re: 2.6.17-mm6

["J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@ono.com>]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 17:02:28 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 01:57:06 +0200
> "J.A. Magallón" <jamagallon@ono.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > 
> > > > With -mm6, the kernel doesn't find it. I get this on boot:
> > > > 
> > > > kinit: try_name sda,1 = dev(8,1)
> > > > kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/sda1) = dev(8.1)
> > > > kinit: root_dev = dev(8,1)
> > > > kinit: failed to identify filesystem /dev/root, trying all
> > > > kinit: trying to mount /dev/root on /root with type ext3
> > > > kinit: Cannot open root device dev(8,1)
> > > > 
> > > > I have tried to get this message from -mm1, but could not get it in any log.
> > > > But... I remember to see that the boot message is like:
> > > > 
> > > > kinit: try_name sda,1 = sda1(8,1)
> > > >                         ^^^^
> > > > I have verified I built -mm6 with ext3,sata-piix and so on, all builtin.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Are you able to test just 2.6.17 + origin.patch + git-libata-all.patch?
> > > 
> > > Also, the full dmesg from 2.6.17-mm6 would help, thanks.
> > > 
> > 
> > It does not reach a point to save the dmesg....
> > I can pick my digital camera.
> 
> Full dmesg would be better for this one, please.
> 

This a shot till I can try to get a full dmesg.

http://belly.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/tmp/shot.jpg

Anyways, what I wanted to point above was that previous kernels talk
about 'sda1(8,1)', and newer use 'dev(8,19)'.
Perhaps somebedy did a strcpy( ... , "dev" ), instead of strcpy( ... , dev ) ?

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