Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:58:03 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | [PATCH] Re: [2.5.7] initrd issue |
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Henrik Storner wrote:
> I've since changed my setup so I do not need the initrd to boot > (moved my root-fs from an LVM volume to a separate partition), > but if you need testing let me know.
Grrr... The problem appeared back in 2.5.2-pre6 when kdev_t type had been changed. Offending line is - if (initrd_load() && ROOT_DEV != MKDEV(RAMDISK_MAJOR, 0)) { + if (initrd_load() && kdev_same(ROOT_DEV, mk_kdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR,
and obvious fix is
diff -urN C7-0/init/do_mounts.c C7-current/init/do_mounts.c --- C7-0/init/do_mounts.c Fri Mar 8 02:09:56 2002 +++ C7-current/init/do_mounts.c Sat Mar 23 19:53:27 2002 @@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV, NULL); if (mount_initrd) { - if (initrd_load() && kdev_same(ROOT_DEV, mk_kdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, 0))) { + if (initrd_load() && !kdev_same(ROOT_DEV, mk_kdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, 0))) { handle_initrd(); goto out; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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