Hi everyone
I'm trying to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel and am finding some problems. I keep
the rootkey.gpg on a usb drive. I followed all the steps for recompiling the
kernel in the README. (Fortunately I also kept my previous 2.4 kernel on the
file and configured syslinux to allow me to boot from it. : ) )
The trouble is that the system boots the new kernel and then complains:
Mounting /dev/sda as /lib failed
Some googling reminded me that the naming convention for devices changes
with 2.6: so I tried editing my /boot/initrd.conf so that it read
CRYPTROOT=/dev/discs/disc0/part1 (formerly /dev/hda1)
BOOTDEV=/dev/discs/disc1 (formerly /dev/sda?)
I am pretty much guessing concerning the second device name; how can I find
the new correct name for /dev/sda if I cannot boot the 2.6 kernel?
But even if I get past this hurdle, I find myself in a catch-22 situation:
trying to run buildinitrd.sh (needed because I changed /boot/initrd.conf)
fails with an error message stating that it cannot find the device nodes:
This
*** script was supposed to create block device nodes for ***
*** BOOTDEV=, CRYPTROOT= and possibly EXTERNALGPGDEV= but ***
*** lacked knowledge of how to create at least one of them. ***
*** Script aborted.
How can I get buildinitrd.sh to succeed in configuring the initrd for use
with a 2.6 kernel while still running a 2.4 kernel?
I don't know if this helps, but I don't have devfs support enabled in my
kernel config.
I would be grateful for any help on this.
Best
Marvin
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