Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:18:35AM -0500, Eric Buddington wrote:
 > With 2.5.51 (gcc-3.2, Athlon, mostly modules, DEVFS=y, DEVFS_DEBUG=y),
 > boot panics with "VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or
 > 03:01".
 > 
 > I had the same problem with 2.5.50, avoidable by disabling devfs entirely.

Sounds similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110
Does enabling UNIX98 pty's fix your problem ?

        Dave