Subject: Re: amd64 kernel not identifying root filesystem
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/27/2008 10:44:58
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, 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.
> Any thoughts?
It's working fine for me on a very recent 4.99.49 sstem (built right
before the bump to 4.99.50):
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
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