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Re: What am I doing wrong with mkinitrd?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Greene)
Thu Nov 7 21:42:48 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:20:23 +0000 ( )
From: Steve Greene <sgreene@washsq.com>
To: Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@mortly.xxedgexx.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961107155656.24937A-100000@mortly.xxedgexx.com>
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> bloodlet:/boot# mkinitrd /boot/initrd 2.0.24
>
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> umount: /tmp/initrd.mnt-289: not mounted
> /dev/loop0: No such device
>
> Then when I got to reboot with the new kernel and new initrd, I just
> kernel panics from not loading my SCSI module. So what am I missing.
I had a similar problem when I did a clean install of RH 4.0 onto a
system with an Adpatech 1542, /dev/sda1 as my main linux partition. I
fixed it in 2 steps:
1. Booted using an older (1.2.13 kernel) boot disk. Ignored any error
messages about missing modules, etc.
Went to /usr/src/linux and built a new kernel with built-in support for
the 1542 and a few other things I had to have. Installed it in /boot,
editied /etc/lilo.conf, reran lilo.
2. Rebooted with new kernel. Since /dev/loop now recognized, I can run
mkinitrd to get module support for the things I ocassionally want that I
didn't already build into the kernel. Reboot again to make sure it all
works.
Except for a strange crc error (that messes up the drive file system
check on boot), things now work just fine.
Hope this helps.
Steve
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