On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 15:50, Praedor Tempus wrote: > I'll take it...although I did specify the "append= " devfs=nomount" " option > in lilo.conf. I tried turning it on and off for the mandrake kernel. I have > it off for the kernel.org kernel - haven't tried turning it on. In any case, > the basic kernel starts fine. > > I'd like to try the patch, however, on the Mandrake kernel.
I believe the Mdk kernel has it; I applied it to the generic kernel.org sources. Patch attached. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Leone Registered Linux user #201348 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 50453890 AIM: MikeLeone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF PGP public key: <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.gpg> "Sometimes your lack of sympathy gets hard to explain, So on your mask of make-up you just paint a little parody of pain" "When you were young", Del Amitri
diff -u linux/fs/super.c.orig linux/fs/super.c
--- linux/fs/super.c.orig Fri Jan 4 21:28:24 2002
+++ linux/fs/super.c Fri Jan 4 21:09:45 2002
@@ -1056,8 +1056,8 @@
putname(fs_names);
if (path_start >= 0) {
name = path + path_start;
- devfs_mk_symlink (NULL, "root", DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT,
- name + 5, NULL, NULL);
+// devfs_mk_symlink (NULL, "root", DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT,
+// name + 5, NULL, NULL);
memcpy (name, "/dev/", 5);
}
vfsmnt = alloc_vfsmnt();
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