Re: 2.6.15 boot problems
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:41, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from
> 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg).
>
> With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of
> the boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees
> console memory, then gives me the following message:
>
> unable to open an initial console
>
> After that, it displays a message about the real time clock driver and a
> couple of messages about serial 8250 being loaded. About 30 seconds later,
> I get a boot prompt...However, no additional filesystems (including /proc
> and /sys) get mounted, / remains mounted read-only, and no apps start
> (presumably because of the filesystem). I am using lvm2 on all filesystems
> except /.
>
> A little more on the kernel compile. I am using the deb for both. I did an
> apt-get install for 2.6.15, untarred the source, copied .config from 2.6.14
> and did a make oldconfig. Gave a cursory look at the config, then did a
> make-kpkg [ clean > modules_clean > kernel_image > modules_image ].
>
> I have shfs, nvidia-kernel, loop-aes and loop-aes-ciphers as modules, as
> with 2.6.14.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> Regards,
Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I
heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but
it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /.
John
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