Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 9 Mar 1996 00:18:29 +0100 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: 1.3.71: VFS panic; Unable to mount root filesystem |
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: But: Couldn't some kind soul add a better explanation instead of : "cannot mount". Why did the mount fail? Is the device unknown, or is : the filesystem type unknown, or what? Some better message would be : great for 2.0.
Try the following. [This allows you to distinguish a failed blkdev_open() from an unrecognized filesystem.]
--- super.c~ Mon Mar 4 20:56:36 1996 +++ super.c Sat Mar 9 00:11:47 1996 @@ -878,10 +878,11 @@ filp.f_mode = 1; retval = blkdev_open(&d_inode, &filp); } - + if (retval) + printk("VFS: Cannot open root device %s\n", + kdevname(ROOT_DEV)); + else for (fs_type = file_systems ; fs_type ; fs_type = fs_type->next) { - if(retval) - break; if (!fs_type->requires_dev) continue; sb = read_super(ROOT_DEV,fs_type->name,root_mountflags,NULL,1);
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