Re: 2.5.68 oops booting with initrd

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Kevin P. Fleming <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>>Very small and simple kernel configuration (includes devfs, which is 
>>where this problem came from), using Etherboot to load it along with a 
>>small (768K) initrd.
> 
> 
>>Call Trace:
>> [<c0114000>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
>> [<c01099cc>] __down_failed+0x8/0xc
>> [<c01772d9>] .text.lock.util+0x55/0x7c
> 
> 
> This should fix it.

The patch you supplied (check disk->minors != 1 before calling 
devfs_remove_partitions) did not apply do 2.5.68; the code in 
fs/partitions/check.c has changed since your base version. However, 
hand-editing to do the same check has solved the problem.

I'll Christoph supply a patch, since he's the one that's been working in 
that whole devfs area.