Re: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 03:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote: Hi- I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting. The partition is fine and ext3 is compiled into the kernel. This was working when using devfs. How do I get this to work? Do I need devfs compiled into the kernel? Thanks for the help, Joe Rizzo no, you do not need devfs, but why do you use a module and do not compile the driver into the kernel? What reason of having initrd, if driver and root fs modules are compiled into the kernel? It is not very smart, isn't it? I had same problem, but I didn't solved it. I think the root fs is not mounting for lack of device file in the initrd. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:38, Cadaver wrote: On Wednesday 10 August 2005 03:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote: Hi- I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting. The partition is fine and ext3 is compiled into the kernel. This was working when using devfs. How do I get this to work? Do I need devfs compiled into the kernel? Thanks for the help, Joe Rizzo no, you do not need devfs, but why do you use a module and do not compile the driver into the kernel? What reason of having initrd, if driver and root fs modules are compiled into the kernel? It is not very smart, isn't it? I had same problem, but I didn't solved it. I think the root fs is not mounting for lack of device file in the initrd. exactly! Compile everything in, so you do not need to use the dirty hack called 'initrd'. Initrd are cool for distributors, becaue they reduce the kernels needed for all the different hardware. But from an endusers point, they are ugly, make the boot even longer (udev too) and do nothing positive in return... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] udev and initrd
Hi- I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting. The partition is fine and ext3 is compiled into the kernel. This was working when using devfs. How do I get this to work? Do I need devfs compiled into the kernel? Thanks for the help, Joe Rizzo Loading 3w-9xxx.ko module 3w-9xxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING (0x04:0x0008): Unclean shutdown detected:unit=0. scsi0 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xfd10, IRQ: 29. 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 2.06.00.009, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.051, Ports: 4. Vendor: AMCC Model: 9500S-4LP DISK Rev: 2.06 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sda: 703057920 512-byte hdwr sectors (359966 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft) SCSI device sda: 703057920 512-byte hdwr sectors (359966 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back, no read (daft) sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 umount /initrd/proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] udev and initrd
On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Joe Rizzo wrote: Thanks for the response. I think I'm having an issue unrelated to udev. 3ware tech support said the driver included with the kernel was old and suggested to build the latest driver as a module. Why not do away with initrd and just build the driver intyo into the kernel? A lot simpler and less hassle all round. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
