Bug 41057

Summary:	Kernel panic at boot if devfs (EXPERIMENTAL) enabled with gentoo-sources
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Charles Erwin <greymeister>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	x86-kernel (DEPRECATED) <x86-kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charles Erwin 2004-02-09 18:14:55 UTC

A message occurrs on bootup of "Kernel Panic cannot mount root filesystem".  This did not happen the first time, when I had not enabled devfs I simply got a message that Gentoo would not be functional _unless_ I went back and enabled it, so I did that and now I get the kernel panic.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge gentoo-sources
2. Compile with recommended options in install guide
3. unchroot, unmount, and reboot.

Actual Results:  
Kernel paniced.

Expected Results:  
Boot I suppose...

AMD K6-2 300
64 MB Ram
IDE HDA
ROOTFS: /dev/hda3   ReiserFS
BootFS: /dev/hda1   ext2
/dev/hda2 = Swap

gentoo-sources

Comment 1 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-09 18:25:04 UTC

can you attach your .config please

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-17 17:44:43 UTC

Also, please add your /etc/lilo.conf or grub.conf and tell us whether you're using genkernel, and what revision of gentoo-sources you tried. Thanks.

Comment 3 Jason Cox (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-09 08:19:31 UTC

Bug is long and gone. No feedback from the reporter. Closing.