Re: cannot open initial console

["Matheus Izvekov" <mizvekov@gmail.com>]

On 2/22/06, Matheus Izvekov <mizvekov@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When i tried kernel 2.6.15.4, i noticed i cant boot it, i get
> "warning: cannot open initial console" then it reboots. I've searched
> for it and found the breakage occurs from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.15.2
>
> Before i start to bisect to find the culpirit, and as there were few
> changes, anyone has a good guess about what broke it?
>
> Thanks all in advance.
>

Found the bad patch by reversing by hand.

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
index 42afb5b..9c38f10 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ static void handle_attrs(struct super_bl
                        REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt &= ~(1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
                }
        } else if (le32_to_cpu(rs->s_flags) & reiserfs_attrs_cleared) {
-               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= REISERFS_ATTRS;
+               REISERFS_SB(s)->s_mount_opt |= (1 << REISERFS_ATTRS);
        }
 }

Reversing this fixes the problem, double checked it. What was that
patch supposed to do anyway?
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