Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Alex Solla writes:

> I'm getting gnarly kernel panics with 2.6.6 during boot up.

Self-compiled or Debian package?

> ..loadmodules: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Read-Only file system
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> ..da: max request size: 128KB
> ..da: 40011300 sectors (20485 MB) w/2048KB Cache, CHS=396993/16/63
> UDMA(33)
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5
> ...scrpts/etx3-add-journal.sh: 32 cannot create /dev/null: Read-Only
> file system
> (the last line repeats about seven times)
> mount: proc already mounted or proc busy
> ...sbin/init:  418: cannot create /dev/null: Read-Only file system
> (five times)
> ...vot_root:  No such file or directory
> sbin/init: 424: cannot create /dev/null: Read-Only file system
> sbin/init: 423 cannot open dev/console: no such file
> Kernel panic:  Attempted to kill init!

Looks like you are trying to use an initrd kernel built without CONFIG_DEVFS.

Regards, Jens.

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