RE: Problems booting 2.4.17

[Edward Muller <emuller@learningpatterns.com>]

Hmmm. Maybe it's a binutils problems like what was reported by some
debian sid users.


On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 20:20, Chris, Lo Cheuk Kong wrote:
> 
> 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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