From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265938AbUE1IMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 04:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265940AbUE1IMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 04:12:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:50584 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265938AbUE1IMd (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 04:12:33 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Can't make XFS work with 2.6.6 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:12:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200405271736.08288.dj@david-web.co.uk> <200405271854.20787.dj@david-web.co.uk> <1085680806.5311.44.camel@buffy> <200405271925.24650.dj@david-web.co.uk> <1085695702.10106.65.camel@buffy> <20040528072030.GA24992@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-187-164-3.dd.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0KJOVxML2v7XHym8trcWhKQ0x+Q= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:08:23PM -0400, David Aubin wrote: >> Hi Dave, >> >> You do not have devfs enabled. So root=/dev/hda3 >> should not work. Please enable in kernel and retry. >> >> # CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set > > Exactly the wrong way around. If you're brave enough to use > devfs you need to use devfs names on the command line. Not at all. $ cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/hda1 video=sisfb:mode:1024x768x8 $ gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep DEVFS CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set Yes, I should switch to udev, but I don't have time to mess around with that stuff right now, and the machine works the way it is. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se