-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Kim Christensen wrote: > Hi list, > > I have installed Debian Sarge on an IBM xSeries 306 and am using RAID1 > with LVM on my two disks. However, when recompiling the kernel to > 2.6.17.9 and using modules for most of the time, I cannot boot into my > system anymore. > > The kernel gives me this at boot: > > raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors > madm: /dev/md1 has been started with 2 drives. > mkdir: cannot create directory '/devfs/raid': Read-only file system > mount: unknown filesystem 'devfs' > /dev/mapper/control: mknod failed: No such file or directory > Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. > /dev/mapper/control: mknod failed: No such file or directory > Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. > Incompatible libdevmapper 1.01.00-ioctl (2006-01-17)(compat) and kernel > driver > > 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "raid" now active > umount: /dev: not mounted > umount: devfs: not mounted > mount: unknown filesystem type 'devfs' > umount: devfs: not mounted > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > Any ideas? Looks like you still use initrd-tools which will not work for kernel version >=2.6.17 since it uses devfs which is depricated i think since 2.6 and was now removed. you can either use initramfs-tools or yaird
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