Making Init ramfs

[Makurin Roman]

В сообщении от Суббота 12 ноября 2005 01:34 Andrew Otte написал(a):
> Have built a custom kernel 2.6.14.1 (from kernel.org) on kubuntu breezy.
> Needed a patch for a bluetooth mouse.
> All succeeded but when I reboot I get a complaint that devfs can't be
> mounted and I can't access partitions on a second harddrive.
> So I got into mkinitrd and then mkinitramfs to build a better initrd file.
> Used /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs -o /boot/initramfs
> when the new kernel was running - booted with the initrd pointing
> to /boot/initramfs and it boots but still the devfs problem and I can't
> mount other partitions.
>

1) devfs has been removed since 2.6.13 and you must use udev instead
2) to be able to mount partitions on second hard drive you need patches from 
kernel-patch-evms package

good luck :)

> I am somewhat of a newbie and fell that my learning curve is so steep I am
> slipping backwards and all to get a scroll wheel rolling!
> Can anyone help?
> --
> -------------------------
> Andrew Otte
> Laidley, Queensland
> Australia
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