On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:33:23AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 20:03, Eric Buddington wrote:
> > Thanks. Disks and partitions are now recognized, but root still won't
> > mount. Reiserfs (the root fs) is compiled in, along with IDE disk
> > support. I tried getting rid of the advanced partitopn types options,
> > which eliminated the MS-DOS partition table message, but did not
> > otherwise change things.
> >
> > The hdc error is also unexpected, unless it's simply the result of no
> > CD in the drive.
> >
> > I hope this isn't another silly thing I'm missing.
>
> I'd start by turning off devfs
This eliminates the problem, at least enough to mount the root fs. My
system relies on devfs though (/dev is unpopulated), so I can't say
much more than that.
I should mention that the kernel was being passed "root=/dev/hda1" as
an option.
-Eric
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