linux-kernel - [FIXED][BUG] 2.6.24.x can't boot (sysfs: could not mount)

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:06:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Thierry Godefroy <reserv0@...oo.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [FIXED][BUG] 2.6.24.x can't boot (sysfs: could not mount)

OK... Sorry about the "noise". I traced the problem down to fs/super.c and a
the supermount patch I was using. Fixed now. Sorry again for the false alert...


--- Thierry Godefroy <reserv0@...oo.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I tried to upgrade the Linux kernel to 2.6.24.3 on my laptop computer (Clevo
> D470K), which is currently running happily under 2.6.23.17, but the new
> kernel
> panics at the very start of the boot up sequence (can't even produce a dmesg
> to
> post here), with the following error:
> 
> sysfs: could not mount !
> mnt_init: sysfs_init_error: -22
> 
> This computer ran the whole series of 2.6 kernels so far, and I'm using the
> same configuration with 2.6.24.3 as with 2.6.23.17.
> 
> It's a "vanilla" kernel with the exception of two patches: supermount (which
> is
> not even yet active when the panic occurs), and a patch to drivers/acpi/ec.c
> (ACPI_EC_DELAY set back to 50ms) because a change in 2.6.20 broke ACPI on
> this
> computer (slowing everything down to a crawl when ACPI_EC_DELAY is left to
> 500ms).
> 
> I also tried with v2.6.24 sources, with the same result.
> 
> Any idea ?


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