Hello, I ran into a situation where I don't know how to break the catch-22 cycle. The scenario is like this: 0. from a DELL machine with scsi device 1. I installed the FreeSwan ipsec that seems like a rebuild of kernel is required so that when insmod loads ipsec.o there will be no error caused by the unreferenced varibales from the current booting kernel 2. I rebuilt the kernel, that went fine 3. but the mkinitrd failed with the error message: "Alll of your loopback devices are in use" and I think the real problem could be that the loop.o was not loaded 4. without a valid .img file, I cannot load the newly built image. without booting from the newly built image, I cannot insmod to load ipsec.o or loop.o to make the mkinitrd to work 5. PLEASE HELP! How to get around this problem??? Thanks in advance. alan _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list