Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Couldnt Activating swap. > > I guess the "Couldnt" is by initrd-netboottools (and yes, I recognize > there's a missing apostrophe), but the last two words is from a base > package. > > > > I've no idea where these messages are coming from, but they're new > > after switching to initrd-netboot-tools. > > You haven't seen "Activating swap" before? I believe that to be part of > a base package (as mentioned above). > > I'll be happy to investigate further, but please check again...
Ok yes, it could be the activating swap message from S10checkroot. > > Well, I sshed in and it seems that /dev/ is a devfs filesystem. As I > > have no devfsd, this can't work well. I looked at > > /etc/lessdisks/mkinitrd/install_scripts/90_mount_nfs_root and found the > > devfs mount there. Seems useless for my case since my nfs root includes > > a complete, static /dev. I commented the mount out, remade my initrd, > > and all is well. > > So, not only the "respawning too fast" but also the need to CTRL-C went > away? Yes. That was on an ia64 running 2.6.8. I then tried to do the same conversion of two other systems running 2.4.27 (alpha and sparc). On both of these, I never saw the "Couldnt" messages nor had to ctrl-c; but if I disaled devfs, the system would fail to boot with messages about no /dev/console. Very strange since my static /dev had a /dev/console. So I'm running devfs with devfsd on those two systems. I don't know why the ia64 is different, unless it's the kernel. -- see shy jo
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