Re: umount: devfs: not mounted - Solved!

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

Pradeeper wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 10:05, Pradeeper wrote:
>
>
> > Is this a problem with my GRUB..?
> > Here is the /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
>
> > default         0
> > timeout         5
> > color cyan/blue white/blue
> >
> > # this is the new settings that tell about my new kernel
> >
> > title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-morpheus
> > root            (hd0,4)
> > kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.7-morpheus root=/dev/hda1 ro
> > savedefault
> > boot
>
> I noticed that there's no "initrd" entry in my new (grub)entry. Tried to
> creat initrd image using,
>
> 	#mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7 2.6.7
> 	cpio: /etc/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory
> 	cpio: /lib/modules/modprobe.conf: No such file or directory
>
> So I created some symbolic links,
>
> #ln -s /etc/modprobe.d/ /etc/modprobe.conf
> #ln -s /lib/modules/2.6.7/modules.alias /lib/modules/modprobe.conf
>
> Then did,
> #mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.7 2.6.7
>
> It worked without any problem. Then I edit my /boot/grub/menu.lst
> accordingly..,
>
> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-morpheus (recovery mode)
> root            (hd0,4)
> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.7-morpheus root=/dev/hda1 ro single
> inird		/initrd.img-2.6.7
> savedefault
> boot
>
> That's all, it worked!
>
> Can some one explain this? Was it my problem or a Debian problem?.

when you want to make-dpkg a kernel with initrd feature, you have to add 
the long option `--initrd'. Afterward, every should be automized correctly.

Thanks,
Jerome



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