From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966149AbXDCCPc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:15:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966151AbXDCCPc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:15:32 -0400 Received: from gum.itee.uq.edu.au ([130.102.66.1]:46887 "EHLO gum.itee.uq.edu.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966149AbXDCCPb (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:15:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4611B8BA.6000406@itee.uq.edu.au> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:15:22 +1000 From: John Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060418 Red Hat/1.7.13-1.1.3.1.centos3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hering CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ENOENT creating /dev/root on MTD RAM partition References: <4610A598.4050206@itee.uq.edu.au> <20070402125212.GA11522@aepfle.de> In-Reply-To: <20070402125212.GA11522@aepfle.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, John Williams wrote: > >>Any comments or suggestions on a possible cause or approach to track it >>down would be greatly appreciated. > > Just a guess: > Check if '/dev' exists. I think it is now possible to not add the built-in > cpio archive with the mandatory /dev, /dev/console and /root entries. Thanks Olaf - you got me on the right track. Turned out to be an arch link script error whereby the "rootfs" initcalls were not placed in the initcall table - thus the init ramfs wasn't yet mounted, and /dev wasn't there. Cheers, John