At 10:40 27-05-02, Tim-Chr. Hanschen wrote: >Than I tried to reboot the new kernel.... the system run into a corrupted >filesystem situation... when I booted the old kernel again, the error of >the filesystem seems to be cleared...
A popular path to confusion and despair, encouraged by the defaults in the kernel configuration, is to select CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y when you have not configured devfsd yet or adjusted fstab to deal with it. The devfs gets mounted on top of /dev which means Linux can not find the /dev/dasd* entries anymore that lead to the disks that hold the rest of your filesystem. Rob
