Re: current linus bk, error mounting root

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:31:51 +0100, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> > > label / is on /dev/sda6
> > >
> > > Creating root device
> > > Mounting root filesystem
> > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> > 
> > if 6 is the errno, it looks like it is trying to open a device that does
> > not exist (ENXIO). Can you up the verbosity of those commands, I'd like
> > to see what it is doing exactly.
> 
> Jeff, how can I up the verbosity? This is on Fedora Core 3 but before
> user space is up. Is there some way to tell the boot ramdisk to
> display more info?

Perhaps you can mount the initrd and change the script to echo the
commands before executing them? Then boot with the modified initrd.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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