Hi, did a fresh installation (with unchanged configuration, just to update the set of packages on the machine), and ended up with an unbootable system. (The last successful attempt dates back to 20041221; I'm using sarge.)
Looking through the log files, and trying to re-do the failed kernel installation step, I found that the message /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: device /dev/hda1 is not a block device has been caused by an almost empty /dev/ directory below /tmp/target: xxx:/dev# ls MAKEDEV fd loop net nvram pts shm stderr stdout core initctl mouse null ppp scsi sndstat stdin xconsole Obviously, there have been some changes somewhere. makedev (now 2.3.1-75) has a timestamp dating back to August, so it's not to be blamed in the first place... Any ideas? (Of course I can run MAKEDEV with the appropriate options, but this should have been done by some basic installation step before.) I also get a lot of error messages from SSL related packages (apache, ssh...) complaining about the PRNG. This might be bugs or features, something I have to find out... Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * * * Merlin cluster admin (http://pandora.aei.mpg.de) Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de) Science Park Golm, Am M�hlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298}
