I've been trying to upgrade from 2.4.18 to 2.4.21 for several days. I
used the kernel-source package for the latest 2.4.21 kernel (-3, I
think). I finally went thru all the screens in "menu xconfig" -- I
was astonished, by the way, at the things that were "n" by default
rather than "m". I included ("y") the ext2 filesystem, initrd
support, SCSI (I have SCSI as my boot drive), and so forth. I built
using --initrd; the one time I tried doing without it, at boot time I
got "EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" and
it hung.
At LILO time, I get
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hdc'
The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted
as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' directory
structure does not reflect DEVFS_FS device names.
Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1' -> '/dev/hdc1'
Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hdd'
...
I'm not compiling the new kernel with devfs (it's even grayed out in
xconfig, because I didn't choose to build with experimental code
support). This is apparently due to the current 2.4.18 kernel, which
was (hey, it was the default), though I don't run devfsd.
However, I don't think it's a LILO problem. My 2.4.18 kernel is in
there too, with the same stanza structure (just changing the
filename), and that boots as fine as always.
After doing "dpkg -i", running lilo, and booting, I get this as the
last screen (I obviously can't scroll up after the panic):
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140K freed
initrd-tools: 0.1.49
[that's the latest in apt-cache for testing, it appears]
Warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module devfs
mount: fs type devfs not supported by kernel
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module aic7xxx
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sg
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sd_mod
umount: devfs: not mounted
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module devfs
mount: fs type devfs not supported by kernel
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module devfs
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module devfs
mknod: `devfs/root2': Operation not permitted
mount: special device /devfs/root2 does not exist
mount: special device /devfs/root2 does not exist
mount: special device /devfs/root2 does not exist
mount: special device /devfs/root2 does not exist
mount: special device /devfs/root2 does not exist
umount: devfs: not mounted
umount: devfs: not mounted
rivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: 139: cannot open dev/console: No such file
kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
This is particularly confusing because I turned off devfs at xconfig
time and included unconditionally ("y") aic7xxx and sg at least, and
probably sd_mod (I haven't checked).
What sorts of things should I check? I've gone over the xconfig
settings once already. Should I post here any other logs or files?
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Tim McDaniel, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] is my work address
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