Re: 2.5.67-mm1

[Badari Pulavarty]

On Tuesday 08 April 2003 02:28 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alistair Strachan <[e-mail]> 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.

Thanks.. I am going to look now. Must have broken something in devfs.

- Badari