[Buildroot] [PATCH] board/qemu: ensure root is available before mounting it

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Jul 6 22:14:46 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Yann" == Yann E MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> writes:

 > On my machine, it happens once in a while that the virtualised machine
 > boots too fast for the rootfs to be available at the time the kernel
 > tries to mount it.

 > For example, board/qemu/arm-vexpress/readme.txt suggested changing
 > "-smp 1" up to "-smp 4". But doing so here causes a kernel panic:

 >     VFS: Cannot open root device "mmcblk0" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
 >     Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
 >     1f00          131072 mtdblock0
 >      (driver?)
 >     1f01           32768 mtdblock1
 >      (driver?)
 >     Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
 >     unknown-block(0,0)

 > So, add the oh-so-usefull 'rootwait' option to all kernel command lines
 > for qemu defconfigs.

 > Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
 > Cc: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
 > Cc: Mark Corbin <mark.corbin at embecosm.com>
 > Cc: Matt Weber <matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com>

Committed to 2019.02.x and 2019.05.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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