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On Wednesday 10 August 2005 03:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote: |
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> > Hi- |
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> > I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a |
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> > raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to |
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> > create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. |
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> > |
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> > The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting. |
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> > The partition is fine and ext3 is compiled into the kernel. This was |
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> > working when using devfs. |
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> > |
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> > How do I get this to work? Do I need devfs compiled into the kernel? |
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> > |
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> > Thanks for the help, |
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> > Joe Rizzo |
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> no, you do not need devfs, but why do you use a module and do not compile |
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> the driver into the kernel? |
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What reason of having initrd, if driver and root fs modules are compiled into |
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the kernel? It is not very smart, isn't it? I had same problem, but I didn't |
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solved it. I think the root fs is not mounting for lack of device file in the |
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initrd. |
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