Re: initrd trouble with underlying /dev

2004-07-11 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
It is a simple trick: mkdir /tmp/r mount --bind / /tmp/r cd /tmp/r/dev umount /tmp/r The "mount --bind" remounts a directory so it appears twice, but without any submounts in the target directory. So it was exactly what the doctor ordered. -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hamil

initrd trouble with underlying /dev

2004-07-09 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
I've got a machine that has been running Debian for a long time. Its root partition is software raid0. It uses a custom kernel, 2.4.22, which does not use initrd. Instead all necessary modules for booting are built into the kernel: hardware drivers, md, etc. The kernel is configured to mounts d

Re: Initrd trouble

2003-10-21 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:07:39AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:13:59PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > > > modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs > > > mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel >

Re: Initrd trouble

2003-10-20 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:13:59PM -0400, Jerome R. Acks wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > > > modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs > > mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel > > > I use romfs... So I guess I shouldn't need cramfs, why it tries to l

Re: Initrd trouble

2003-10-20 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:39:49PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > modprobe: Can't locate module cramsfs > mount: fs type cramfs not supported by kernel > I use romfs... So I guess I shouldn't need cramfs, why it tries to load > it, no idea. > I created the initrd with mkinitrd (the debian package)

Initrd trouble

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
Hello, I'm still trying to get my system running with an initrd image, I'm at a lost :( Here is the output when trying to boot... Any ideas on what I should do would be very much appreciated (especcialy because I got to put this server in a serverpark within 24 hours...): RAMDISK: romfs filesyste