Praedor Atrebates wrote:
On two separate systems, totally different, I find that the kernel build
process fails to produce an initrd. When one runs "make install" on the
kernel build, part of the process is supposed to be creation of the
appropriate initrd but 9.0 fails in this regard every time, regardless of
kernel, and I have to manually try it.
Problem is, on my laptop initrd fails to work at all - complaining that it
cannot find /dev/loop, cannot find a loopback device even though support for
the loopback device was explicitly set in during make xconfig.
Why is it that 9.0 fails on this basic requirement? What precisely was broken
in 9.0 vs 8.2? How does one get loopback working?
praedor
I have had such a problem while installing a kernel on, I believe, 9.0.
The solution for me was to modprobe loop and mkinitrd. However, the
same failure has occurred on a series of recent cooker kernels, where
the aeo module was broken. Search the cooker archives for the specifics
on that one.
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