Re: amd64 kernel not identifying root filesystem

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:15:11AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:38:36PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > A moderately recent 'current' amd64 kernel (I think from source from
> > saturday) is failing to determine the correct boot device.
> > 
> > It gives:
> > opendisk: can't open dev wd0 (16)
> > opendisk: can't open dev wd0 (16)
> > opendisk: can't open dev wd0 (16)
> > boot device: <unknown>
> > 
> > This is a ASUS A8V delux.
> 
> Some investigation shows that this is (probably) fallout from ad's
> change to disallow multiple specfs_open() of block devices.

This still fails on a 4.99.52 kernel.

        David

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