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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:11:26 -0600 From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>, jurriaan <thunder7@...all.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: wanted: more informative message if root device can't be found/mounted On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:57:37PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 12:44 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, jurriaan wrote: > > > > > kernel panic - unable to mount root device 09:02 > > > > These numbers are the root cause. > > Use mount by filesystem UUID. On-disk content does unlikely change. > > And if it does, you have to reconfigure the bootloader anyway. > > > > All this luxury doesnt belong into the kernel. > > one thing that we should consider is to not panic(). Panic() tends to > cause the backscroll capability to go away.. which is rather useful to > see what went wrong for this scenario... +1. To the untrained eye, "kernel panic" gets filed as a Sev 1 issue by end users and testers alike, when most often it's a system configuration error rather than a kernel bug. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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