Re: [2.5.51] Failure to mount ext3 root when ext2 compiled in

[Andrew Morton]

Mohamed El Ayouty wrote:
> 
> I started having that problem since 2.5.48.
> 
> I just commented out those 4 lines in init/do_mounts.c:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
>         sys_mount("devfs", "/dev", "devfs", 0, NULL);
>         do_devfs = 1;
> #endif
> 
> and 2.5.51 now works.
> 

OK, the above code was added in 2.5.48.   Thanks.  I'll bug Mr Viro
about it when the power comes back on over on the East coast...

If you replace CONFIG_DEVFS_FS with CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT there, does
that fix it?