Problem mounting JFFS2 as root, works for ext2

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sun Aug 10 04:27:04 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:33, Dan Cardamore wrote:

> If I boot using JFFS2 as my root, I get:
> <snip>
> VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem)
> mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -2
  <...>
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to the kernel
> 
> If I boot from /dev/hda3 as my root (ext2), I get everything working
> perfect.

Does it bitch about failing to mount devfs in the case where you mount
ext2-root too?

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dwmw2





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