> I,m new to this so be gentle. Having come from a point and click > SuSE install. > I,ve installed Gentoo 1.4 stage3 OK but I want to recompile a 2.6 > or 2.4.22 > smp kernel in place of the genkernel that I installed. > > Now that I have emerged mkinitrd I get > "all your loop back devices are busy" > when I do > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22 gentoo-2.4.22-r3 > > RTFM or just a prod in the right direction will be most appreciated.
I haven't done an initrd image under Gentoo, but under Redhat this happened when my running kernel was not configured in the first place to enable loop back devices at all. Check the status of the kernel you just built in this regard, and good luck! - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
