* jurriaan ([email protected]) wrote:
> When the kernel mentions it can't mount the root device, all information
> about the 12 harddisks in this system has long scrolled off the screen.
>
> It would be really nice to see something like this:
>
> kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02
> Possible devices:
I posted a patch to do this about 18 months ago against 2.6.11rc5:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110946077026065&w=2
As people have pointed out the other problem is the lack of scroll
back after panic; if you have a reasonable number of partitions
then it is a pain.
Dave
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