Re: 2.5.51 won't boot with devfs enabled

[Eric Buddington]

This fixed my problem (though now it doesn't find init, *sigh*)

-Eric

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:44:43PM +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> Are you using grub to boot?  If so try using something 
> like /dev/discs/disc0/part1 or the full ide /dev pathname for devfs to boot 
> with instead of /dev/hda1.  I have a scsi disk subsystem and have to 
> use /dev/discs/disc0/part9 instead of /dev/sda9 to get devfs to work.
> 
> Jordan
> > 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.
> > 
> > -Eric
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