Hi all,
A bunch of things came together in the mother of all
screw-ups.
One, somehow the /boot line in fstab got set to
noauto. How that happened have no idea.
Two, at some point I must have compiled a kernel after
chrooting without making sure /dev/<boot> was mounted
on /boot. Then, when I copied over bzImage it landed
under the empty /boot dir on the root device.
Three, when I was told to save .config somewhere then
clean the source then cp .config back and make
oldconfig, I couldn't find it because I looked in the
wrong dir!
Four, I made another kernel but this time neglected to
include the proper SATA drivers. When I said "no
warning" before the panic, there was actually lots but
I took them for neutral messages.
So that's sorted.
Just one little problem left. From the boot console:
udevd-event[3787]: udev_make_node: mknod(/dev/ttyS0,
020660, 4, 64)
failed: File exists
udevd-event[3788]: udev_make_node: mknod(/dev/ttyS1,
020660, 4, 65)
failed: File exists
udevd-event[3789]: udev_make_node: mknod(/dev/ttyS2,
020660, 4, 66)
failed: File exists
udevd-event[3790]: udev_make_node: mknod(/dev/ttyS3,
020660, 4, 67)
failed: File exists
[ !! ] *
This must have something to do with the end of console
boot just before login where it says:
/usr/sbin/ppd/: Couldn't stat /dev/ttyS0: Too many
levels of symbolic links
So in the end, I still can't dial out, on that box
anyway.
-mw
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