The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel

The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel

[hxsrmeng]

Hi, 

When I do:
$/sbin/mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6-xfs -i initrd-2.6-xfs

I got:
"
Filesystem modules:
WARNING: Couldn't open
directory /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4: No
such file or directory
FATAL: Could not
open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
"
So, does this mean it failed?

If I can still boot this kernel, are the file system features OK?
Especially, I want to try XFS and "Concurrent Multi-File Data Streams".

Thanks in advance!

Re: The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel

[Eric Sandeen]

hxsrmeng wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> When I do:
> $/sbin/mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6-xfs -i initrd-2.6-xfs

mkinitrd varies from distribution to distribution.  I don't know what
the -k and -i options do in your case.

But, this really isn't particularly on-topic for the xfs list... if
you're having trouble installing a custom kernel, I'd suggest asking on
a list more relevant to your distribution.

-Eric

> I got:
> "
> Filesystem modules:
> WARNING: Couldn't open
> directory /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4: No
> such file or directory
> FATAL: Could not
> open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
> "
> So, does this mean it failed?
> 
> If I can still boot this kernel, are the file system features OK?
> Especially, I want to try XFS and "Concurrent Multi-File Data Streams".
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 

Re: The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel

[hxsrmeng]

Thanks.

I downloaded this distribution from the cvs@oss.sgi.com, and it is a
XFS-relative kernel, so I think it should be OK for me to post this
question here.

Also, as I mentioned, I am especially interested in playing with the XFS
features and I am worrying whether this problem would stop me in doing
that. I think the gurus who could answer this question should be
here. .... Anyway, I am sorry if you think i post it to a wrong list.


On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 23:47 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> hxsrmeng wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > When I do:
> > $/sbin/mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6-xfs -i initrd-2.6-xfs
> 
> mkinitrd varies from distribution to distribution.  I don't know what
> the -k and -i options do in your case.
> 
> But, this really isn't particularly on-topic for the xfs list... if
> you're having trouble installing a custom kernel, I'd suggest asking on
> a list more relevant to your distribution.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> > I got:
> > "
> > Filesystem modules:
> > WARNING: Couldn't open
> > directory /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4: No
> > such file or directory
> > FATAL: Could not
> > open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
> > "
> > So, does this mean it failed?
> > 
> > If I can still boot this kernel, are the file system features OK?
> > Especially, I want to try XFS and "Concurrent Multi-File Data Streams".
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > 
> 

Re: The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel

[Eric Sandeen]

hxsrmeng wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> I downloaded this distribution from the cvs@oss.sgi.com, and it is a
> XFS-relative kernel, so I think it should be OK for me to post this
> question here.

I am talking about the gnu/linux OS distribution that already exists on
your computer (debian, red hat, mandrake, suse, ubuntu whatever).  How
you install a new kernel, particularly how you make an initrd, is
somewhat specific to that distribution, not to the kernel itself.  In
other words, mkinitrd failures are not xfs related.

> Also, as I mentioned, I am especially interested in playing with the XFS
> features and I am worrying whether this problem would stop me in doing
> that. I think the gurus who could answer this question should be
> here. .... Anyway, I am sorry if you think i post it to a wrong list.

If you can't boot and can't load xfs, it won't work.  If you can, it will.

-Eric

Re: The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel

[Klaus Strebel]

Hi hxsrmeng,

hxsrmeng schrieb:
> Hi, 
> 
> When I do:
> $/sbin/mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6-xfs -i initrd-2.6-xfs
> 
> I got:
> "
> Filesystem modules:
> WARNING: Couldn't open
> directory /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4: No
> such file or directory
> FATAL: Could not
> open /var/tmp/mkinitramfs.C23294/mnt/lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
> "
> So, does this mean it failed?
Look's like your mkinitrd can't handle the way the kernel-version is set
-> no working initrd is created.
> 
> If I can still boot this kernel, are the file system features OK?
If you don't need special modules loaded on boot from the initrd, it
should be OK. If not, don't build needed drivers and features as modules.

> Especially, I want to try XFS and "Concurrent Multi-File Data Streams".
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 

as Eric stated, quite off-topic and very very little info ...

- did you do a make modules_install ?
- where the modules copied to /lib/modules/2.6.23-rc4 ?
- what distro are you using, mkinitrd is totally different by distro and
version!
- is your box running out of diskspace ?
- are there special settings in the distros kernel-sources Makefile ?

If you don't know answers to these questions, you'd rather use the
distros kernel than trying to kernels from other sources ;-).

On SuSE -k list the kernel to use and -i the initrd to create, RedHat  (
for ex. ) is totally different AFAiK!

Perhaps the maintainer of your mkinitrd can help you further.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Klaus Strebel, Dipl.-Inform. (FH), mailto:klaus.strebel@gmx.net

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