RE: Problems booting 2.4.17

From: Chris, Lo Cheuk Kong (Chris.Lo@corp.sunday.com)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 20:20:24 EST

Thanks for info. My workaround is that: don't use initrd image and it boots
fine!
My hardware setup is simple and allows me to put modules back into the
kernel. For 2.4.17, I drop the initrd line in the lilo...

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Muller [mailto:emuller@learningpatterns.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:08 AM
To: chris.lo@corp.sunday.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Problems booting 2.4.17

For now I've moved back to 2.4.16, which boots without a problem. I had
lots of work to do to get those systems up and configured so I haven't
had time to play.

I'm not sure what is causing the problem. I know how to make an initrd
image and it's there. It may be a problem with devfs because I remember
that Mandrake based their devfs scripts on some very very very old stuff
from the devfs ditribution (which is being removed IIRC).

It's probably not fs based as you are using reiserfs and I'm using ext3.

Anyway ... For now I've gone back to 2.4.16, but I'd like to try 2.4.17.
So if you happen to have some time and figure it out, please let me
know.

On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 23:51, Chris Lo wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I had the same problem, with resierfs. Any workaround
> found?
>
> Have a happy new year!!
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> Hello all.
>
> I'm having problems booting 2.4.17 on a Mandrake 8.1 system (with all
> current updates).
>
> When I boot 2.4.17 (with an initrd image) I get the following...
>
> kernel boots ...
> Creating root device
> mkrootdev: mknod failed: 17
> Mounting root filesyste with flags data=ordered
> Mount: error 16 mounting ext3 flags data=ordered
> ...Tried to remount without flags and fails with the same error...
> Kernel Panic: No initrd found ...
>
> I am using ext3 / /boot /usr /var & /home filesystems
>
> 2.4.8-34.1mdk boots fine however.
>
> I'm about to go try 2.4.16 (it was working with reiserfs partitions
> before).
>
> The machine is an AMD Athalon 1.3 Ghz on an EPOC board with a 3ware 7800
> series RAID card, with three 75/80 GB drives in a RAID 5 array.
>
> Anyone else run into something like this?
>
> I'll report back about 2.4.16 and if anyone would like more info, just
> shout.
>
>
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