[FIX] Re: [2.5.1-pre7] VFS: Cannot open root device "341" or 03:41

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:27:32 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Sebastian [ISO-8859-1] Dröge wrote:

> Hi,
> When booting a virgin 2.5.1-pre7 kernel I get this panic:
> VFS: Cannot open root device "341" or 03:41
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41

--- C1-pre7/init/do_mounts.c Fri Dec 7 20:48:43 2001
+++ linux/init/do_mounts.c Sat Dec 8 06:29:20 2001
@@ -351,8 +351,9 @@
mount("devfs", ".", "devfs", 0, NULL);
retry:
for (p = fs_names; *p; p += strlen(p)+1) {
- err = mount(name,"/root",p,root_mountflags,root_mount_data);
- switch (err) {
+ errno = 0;
+ mount(name,"/root",p,root_mountflags,root_mount_data);
+ switch (-errno) {
case 0:
goto done;
case -EACCES:

-
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