On Tuesday 14 February 2006 08:24, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:42:44AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > This is expected behavior. The kernel doesn't have a /dev at the time
> > it mounts the root fs so it has no idea what /dev/sda1 is.
>
> Incorrect. Read init/do_mounts.c::name_to_dev_t().
Thanks for the info...Philip, you are correct, but for the wrong reason. Al,
you hit it right on the head...
It is intentional behavior, but the reason is that
for name_to_dev_t() to work, CONFIG_SYSFS must be enabled...so there's
my connection to the CONFIG_* option that I suspected...
Thanks again...
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