On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 08:12:05 -0700, Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I may give that a shot myself (used to do it that way).
> I noticed that devfs seems to be REALLY broken now rather than just
> experimental and buggy. I built the 2.4.17 kernel and created an initrd for
> it - and it works ONLY if I do the 'append= "devfs nomount"' deal in lilo.
> Change it to "devfs mount" and all hell breaks loose - well, nothing breaks
> loose, which is the problem. Upon bootup there is a kernel panic and an
> inability to load the root filesystem, yadda, yadda. Change it back to
> "devfs=nomount" and all is well again. I'm wondering if flushing the
> initrd.img down the toilet and simply booting the kernel proper would allow
> it to bootup with devfs activated?
I have no devfs problems at all with my compiled 2.4.17-mjc3 kernel, so it may
help not using your initrd file. You can usually disable it loading in your boot
manager's config file (e.g. /etc/lilo.conf for LILO).
> I was trying this as one of many desperate means to get Alsa/sound working
> with my laptop. It was a flimsy longshot but I was trying it and found the
> absolute impossibility of bootup at all with devfs activated (yes, it was
> selected in xconfig so the kernel "supports" it).
It doesn't hurt to try...
> praedor
>
> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 07:19 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Thanks, that worked very well. I still have no idea why mkinitrd freezes my
> > computer, but it doesn't matter since I don't need an initrd image anyway
> > :)
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 15:18:18 +1100 (EST), Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > > 5. Run 'make modules_install && make install'.
> > >
> > > I nerver did that, I just 'make modules_install' and
> > > manually copy the bzImage file from arch/i386/boot to
> > > /boot and manually modify lilo.conf. always work :-)
> > >
> [...]
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