Re: [PATCH] make 2.5.49 mount root again for devfs users

[Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>]

>Does your patch break being able to mount root with things 
>like "root=/dev/discs/disc0/part9" 
>and/or "root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/id0/lun0/part9"?  For people with devfs 
>enable kernels those are valid boot entries and should not end up getting 
>broken needlessly.

I have devfs, and my /etc/lilo.conf contains this:

boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4

I haven't tried to put this in a command line
option, but it works fine from lilo.

The reason fro the patch is that I couldn't boot
with devfs anymore, I'd get a 
"panic: couldn't mount root at 03:04"
or similiar, depending on which machine I used.

Now I don't get that, it just works.

Have you been able to boot a devfs-enabled
2.5.48 or later?  On a machine where /dev
is only a empty directory - a mountpoint
for devfs use?



Helge Hafting