Hello, I've recently been stomped by a very strange kernel problem and I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I'm using a custom kernel (2.6.20) that I've compiled myself, I've used mkinitrd to generate an initrd. When my machine boots up it loads the initrd, prints out a few errors from mount about devfs not being a known file system then fails on pivot_root and kernal panics. I know devfs has been depricated some time ago, the last kernel version to have any support for it was 2.6.17.14 (which boots up on my machine without any issues). The problem is it seems initrd is somehow dependant on devfs support. As far as I can tell, what happends is that when initrd get loaded it tries to mount /dev using devfs when that fails it can't pivot_root as /dev doesn't exist and it kernel panics. I've looked over mkinitrd.conf but didn't see anything related to devfs or udev. Has anyone seen anything like this before? I'd greatly appreceate any advice.
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