Re: Compiling 2.6.5 on iMac

[Alex Solla <poopdeville@phreaker.net>]

On Jun 7, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Jens Schmalzing wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Alex Solla writes:
>
> > I'm getting gnarly kernel panics with 2.6.6 during boot up.
>
> Self-compiled or Debian package?

It's a pre-compiled Debian package (kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc)

> > ..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.

Yes, the installer told me to check my bootloader documentation before 
trying to boot into the new kernel because it was initrd.  I did that, 
and added the line initrd=/initrd.img to the relevant yaboot.conf 
entry.  Did I forget to do something?

Thanks,
Alex

> Regards, Jens.
>
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