Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem failed to mount
authorDave Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Wed, 9 May 2007 09:33:24 +0000 (02:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 9 May 2007 19:30:48 +0000 (12:30 -0700)
commitdd2a345f8f002845636dbf5d2d768bb5cd8a5f59
tree9ddbe34d18cf97496f4d3d582ed127fee0d96a01
parent0e7d18b57c39bedcbd181e3c06d13572b33e5380
Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem failed to mount

Display all possible partitions when the root filesystem is not mounted.
This helps to track spell'o's and missing drivers.

Updated to work with newer kernels.

Example output:

VFS: Cannot open root device "foobar" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
0800    8388608 sda driver: sd
  0801     192748 sda1
  0802    8193150 sda2
0810    4194304 sdb driver: sd
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Dave Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
block/genhd.c
include/linux/genhd.h
init/do_mounts.c