Re: 2.5.67-mm1

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:28:53 -0700


Alistair Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On attempting to boot this kernel, I get the following just before init:
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> 2.5.67 base works fine. I discovered that reverting the following
> patches allows me to boot. I can increase the granularity of my search
> if nothing comes immediately to mind:
>
> aggregated-disk-stats.patch
> dynamic-hd_struct-allocation-fixes.patch
> dynamic-hd_struct-allocation.patch
>

Ah, good detective work, thanks. It looks like the hd_struct dynamic allocation
patch has broken devfs partition discovery somehow.

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