From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8K7qtuw017152 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:52:57 -0700 Message-ID: <46F223DE.10003@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:40:14 +0200 From: Klaus Strebel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: The problem in installing the linux-2.6-xfs kernel References: <1190260918.24375.4.camel@OpenSUSE-desktop.Home> In-Reply-To: <1190260918.24375.4.camel@OpenSUSE-desktop.Home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: hxsrmeng@gmail.com Cc: XFS 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 /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \