Re: Unable to mount root device under .49 (possibly earlier than

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@holomorphy.com)
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:23:22 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> I found that on 2.5.47. It turned out that I had to give the devfs
> name for the root device. root=/dev/ide/la/la/la.
>
> I had devfs compiled in but not active on boot.
>
> CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set
> # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
> CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y

Thanks for the suggestion but;

zwane@montezuma linux-2.5.49 {0} grep DEVFS .config
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set

Zwane

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