On Wednesday 10 August 2005 03:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 23:43, Joe Rizzo wrote: > > Hi- > > I am trying to convert to using udev instead of devfs. I need to load a > > raid controller module to access to root fs. I am using mkinitrd to > > create the initrd, however the root partition is not mounting. > > > > The driver module is loading but the root partition is not mounting. > > The partition is fine and ext3 is compiled into the kernel. This was > > working when using devfs. > > > > How do I get this to work? Do I need devfs compiled into the kernel? > > > > Thanks for the help, > > Joe Rizzo > > no, you do not need devfs, but why do you use a module and do not compile > the driver into the kernel? What reason of having initrd, if driver and root fs modules are compiled into the kernel? It is not very smart, isn't it? I had same problem, but I didn't solved it. I think the root fs is not mounting for lack of device file in the initrd.
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