Rolf Pedersen wrote on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:39:18PM -0800 : > Michael Holt wrote: > >Hello, > >I just finished trying to recompile my kernel for the third time; I'm sure > >I > >followed all the steps exactly as described on the MUO pages and when it > >gets to the make install part - it fails on mkinitrd. I try doing it > >manually as the error message suggests and I get: > >mke2fs 1.27 (14-Mar-2002) > >could not find any device /dev/loop# > >Can't get a loopback device > >I've left my laptop sitting as is and I'm hoping that I can rescue it from > >where it is - if not, at least find out what the problem is. > I remembered some disussion of a like issue on cooker; gather modprobe > loop and retry mkinitrd worked-around for some; the threads can be found
But before you do that, the real problem is that for some reason devfsd
has died. Can you send me (offlist) your /var/log/messages and
/var/log/daemons/info and /var/log/daemons/errors files? It would help
to figure out _what_ caused devfsd to die, then we can know what to look
for in the future.
Blue skies... Todd
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