Bug#283919: initrd-tools: Should warn if root device is not found

2004-12-13 Thread Piotr Roszatycki 
On Monday 13 of December 2004 03:34, Horms wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:11:42AM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
  Package: initrd-tools
  Version: 0.1.74
  Severity: wishlist
 
  I'd like to see some warning, if /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev is equal
  0. That means no root device was found and the message would be very
  helpful.
 
  I've spend an hour trying to reboot the kernel 2.6 with
  root=/dev/ida/c0d0p2 parameter. I didn't know the kernel doesn't
  understand such parameter and I've found the real reason by my own
  inspection in initrd's mini-shell.

 That sounds reasonable, though I am not sure where you would want
 the warning to go. Perhaps a patch would help illustrate the idea.

My proposition:

--- init.orig   2004-08-27 20:43:34 +0200
+++ init2004-12-13 10:19:29 +0100
@@ -412,7 +412,10 @@
 rootdev=$(cat proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev)
 cmdline=$(cat /proc/cmdline)
 umount -n proc
-if [ $rootdev != 256 ]; then
+if [ $rootdev = 0 ]; then
+echo Kernel can not convert a name into device number. Check the 'root=' 
argument
+fi
+if [ $rootdev != 256 ]  [ $rootdev != 0 ]; then
mount_root
cd mnt
[ $DEVFS ]  mount -nt devfs devfs dev



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Bug#283919: initrd-tools: Should warn if root device is not found

2004-12-12 Thread Horms 
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:11:42AM +0100, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
 Package: initrd-tools
 Version: 0.1.74
 Severity: wishlist
 
 I'd like to see some warning, if /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev is equal 0. 
 That
 means no root device was found and the message would be very helpful.
 
 I've spend an hour trying to reboot the kernel 2.6 with root=/dev/ida/c0d0p2
 parameter. I didn't know the kernel doesn't understand such parameter
 and I've found the real reason by my own inspection in initrd's mini-shell.

That sounds reasonable, though I am not sure where you would want 
the warning to go. Perhaps a patch would help illustrate the idea.

Thanks

-- 
Horms

Bug#283919: initrd-tools: Should warn if root device is not found

2004-12-02 Thread Piotr Roszatycki 
Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.74
Severity: wishlist

I'd like to see some warning, if /proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev is equal 0. That
means no root device was found and the message would be very helpful.

I've spend an hour trying to reboot the kernel 2.6 with root=/dev/ida/c0d0p2
parameter. I didn't know the kernel doesn't understand such parameter
and I've found the real reason by my own inspection in initrd's mini-shell.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio  2.5-1.1GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs   1.1-6  Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash  0.5.1-3The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  fileutils 5.2.1-2The GNU file management utilities 
ii  util-linux2.12h-3Miscellaneous system utilities

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