Did you rpm -i or rpm -F your kernel?
I have seen this problem when you rpm -F which then overwrites the kernel
that you systems booted with. When then attempting to make a new ramdisk
with mkinitrd, this message is returned. Try doing an rpm -i on the
kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 which should still have a matching ramdisk in /boot.
Reboot your system using the 2.4.0-037 kernel and then try to mkinitrd using
your 2.4.0-0.43.4 kernel.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jens-Ulrik Petersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re:
kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)
"Edward S. Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A word to the wise: if you don't currently need initrd to get your system
> online, don't blindly upgrade to 2.4.0-0.43.4; do:
>
> mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.43.4.img 2.4.0-0.43.4
I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and trying to upgrade to
2.4.0-0.43.12 (before that also tried 2.4.0-0.43.11). I seem to have
trouble with my loop devices, since:
% sudo mkinitrd -v --omit-scsi-modules /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.43.12
2.4.0-0.43.12
Using modules: ./kernel/drivers/ide/ide-mod.o
./kernel/drivers/ide/ide-probe-mod.o ./kernel/drivers/ide/ide-disk.o
All of your loopback devices are in use!
% sudo losetup /dev/loop0
loop: can't get info on device /dev/loop0: No such device or address
(I get this for all the first 8 loop devices.)
% sudo losetup /dev/loop8
loop: can't open device /dev/loop8: No such device
What's wrong? Any ideas how to fix this? (I get this same on another
machine also running RH7 and 2.4.0-test11.)
--Jens
kernel-2.4.0-0.43.12.i686.rpm
modutils-2.3.21-4.i386.rpm
dev-3.0.6-8.i386.rpm
glibc-2.2-9.i686.rpm
losetup-2.10r-1.i386.rpm
MAKEDEV-3.0.6-8.i386.rpm
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Dec 13 06:26 loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Dec 13 06:26 loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 10 Dec 13 06:26 loop10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 11 Dec 13 06:26 loop11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 12 Dec 13 06:26 loop12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 13 Dec 13 06:26 loop13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 14 Dec 13 06:26 loop14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 15 Dec 13 06:26 loop15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Dec 13 06:26 loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Dec 13 06:26 loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Dec 13 06:26 loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Dec 13 06:26 loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Dec 13 06:26 loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Dec 13 06:26 loop7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 8 Dec 13 06:26 loop8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 9 Dec 13 06:26 loop9
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