Re: [expert] Mandrake 9 will not make initrd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolf Pedersen wrote on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:28:10AM -0800 : Problem is, on my laptop initrd fails to work at all - complaining that it cannot find /dev/loop, cannot find a loopback device even though support for the loopback device was explicitly set in during make xconfig. Why is it that 9.0 fails on this basic requirement? What precisely was broken in 9.0 vs 8.2? How does one get loopback working? I have had such a problem while installing a kernel on, I believe, 9.0. The solution for me was to modprobe loop and mkinitrd. However, the Usually this means that for some reason the devfsd daemon has died. Blue skies... Todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com cat /boot/vmlinuz /dev/dsp #for great justice Mandrake Cooker Devel Version, Kernel 2.4.21pre4-5mdk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+UsJGlp7v05cW2woRAhC0AKCuTUTGeZkL3tODw/Z4gOcm1AM9gwCbBR5M q9YrdmqyVlOQU4hAnftXs6c= =egx5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9 will not make initrd
On two separate systems, totally different, I find that the kernel build process fails to produce an initrd. When one runs make install on the kernel build, part of the process is supposed to be creation of the appropriate initrd but 9.0 fails in this regard every time, regardless of kernel, and I have to manually try it. Problem is, on my laptop initrd fails to work at all - complaining that it cannot find /dev/loop, cannot find a loopback device even though support for the loopback device was explicitly set in during make xconfig. Why is it that 9.0 fails on this basic requirement? What precisely was broken in 9.0 vs 8.2? How does one get loopback working? praedor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9 will not make initrd
Praedor Atrebates wrote: On two separate systems, totally different, I find that the kernel build process fails to produce an initrd. When one runs make install on the kernel build, part of the process is supposed to be creation of the appropriate initrd but 9.0 fails in this regard every time, regardless of kernel, and I have to manually try it. Problem is, on my laptop initrd fails to work at all - complaining that it cannot find /dev/loop, cannot find a loopback device even though support for the loopback device was explicitly set in during make xconfig. Why is it that 9.0 fails on this basic requirement? What precisely was broken in 9.0 vs 8.2? How does one get loopback working? praedor I have had such a problem while installing a kernel on, I believe, 9.0. The solution for me was to modprobe loop and mkinitrd. However, the same failure has occurred on a series of recent cooker kernels, where the aeo module was broken. Search the cooker archives for the specifics on that one. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
