Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

[Steven Cole]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:16:44 -0500, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > > Something in the last 24hrs in linus bk broke my ability to mount root:
> > >
> > > Creating root device
> > > Mounting root filesystem
> > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> > > mount: error 2 mounting none
> > > Switching to new root
> > > Switchroot: mount failed 22
> > > umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> > >
> > > If I back off a day everything works again.
> > >
> > > Root is on Intel ICH5 SATA drive.
> >
> > dmesg output?
> >
> > Can you verify that -bk4 works, and -bk5 breaks?
>
>
> bk4 works. I don't have a serial port hooked up so there is no way to
> get dmesg, but I don't see anything obvious on the screen scrolling
> by.
>
> I'll check bk5 next.
>
> It would be much more convenient if the bkN releases were tagged in Linus bk.

Yes, and name them -preN instead. ;)

I had a slightly different problem mounting root with an earlier -mm, which
was fixed by setting CONFIG_BASE_FULL=y.  I saw that option enter the
Linus tree recently, so that might be something you could try.

Steven
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