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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
