Re: Strange! Cannot use JFFS2 as root

[Ian Campbell]

> I traced the code and found that when passing "/dev/mtdblock1" to
> name_to_dev_t() in do_mounts.c, it would return 0 at every try_name(), which
> will fail at open() with the path "/sys/block/%s/dev".
> 
> What's the problem? Could anyone tell me?

If I remember correctly you need to pass the root in as the major and
minor numbers for jffs2 on 2.6. For example my 2.6 command line is
	root=31:03 rootfstype=jffs2 ro console=ttyS0,115200
rather that root=/dev/mtdblock3.

I can't remember why this is the case though.

Ian.
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