linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Marcio Oliveira wrote:
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, [iso-8859-1] Márcio Oliveira wrote:
Hi there!
I have a IBM ThinkPad t43 running Fedora Core Linux 4 and kernel
2.6.12-1.146_FC4. I recompiled the kernel (2.6.13.4 - kernel.org) and I
am geting the following message when the computer boots:
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
This label was no good it needs to be /dev/sda6 from your fstab
You will need to put the device name in /boot/*/*.conf lilo or
grub instead on "label"
yeah, I try to boot it using "root=/dev/sda6" instead "root=LABEL=/"
parameter, but the system still not booting...
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mouting ext3
Error 2 == ENOENT
ENOENT? What it means?
Was 'no such file', perhaps the device file was not created by `mkrootdev`
because it errored out???
This is all 'Fedora' stuff, not Linux stuff. You should upgrade
your 'mkinitrd' (or rewrite it) so it doesn't use Fedora-specific
stuff if you intend to install an un-patched kernel.
Dick, sorry about my newbie question: where can I find a mkinitrd source
code to compile in my system?
Switchimg to new root
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
switchroot: mount failed: 22
Error 22 = EINVAL
EINVAL? What it means?
Means 'wrong value'. Probably because the new root wasn't
mounted.
[SNIPPED...]
In the meantime do:
mknod /dev/sda6 b 8 6
mknod /dev/root b 8 6
.. in your initrd script. This should get you past the errors.
I made the changes you suggest in the initrd script and it was not able
to create the necessary devices at boot time...
In the meantime I also installed a new mkinitrd (from fedora devel,
version 5.0.8-1), but it still not working...
Any more ideas? When can I get the mkinitrd source code?
thanks Dick.
Márcio Oliveira
mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev
mknod /dev/console c 5 1
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
mkdir /dev/pts
mkdir /dev/shm
echo Starting udev
/sbin/udevstart
echo -n "/sbin/hotplug" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
echo "Loading scsi_mod.ko module"
insmod /lib/scsi_mod.ko
echo "Loading sd_mod.ko module"
insmod /lib/sd_mod.ko
echo "Loading libata.ko module"
insmod /lib/libata.ko
echo "Loading ata_piix.ko module"
insmod /lib/ata_piix.ko
echo "Loading dm-mod.ko module"
insmod /lib/dm-mod.ko
sleep 10
/sbin/fdisk -l
sleep 10
/sbin/udevstart
echo Creating root device
mkrootdev /dev/root
echo Mounting root filesystem
mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot
echo Switching to new root
switchroot --movedev /sysroot
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.55 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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