From: Declan Grady (Declan.Grady at domain nuvotem.com)
Date: Thu 11 Jul 2002 - 12:04:17 IST
In only my 2nd or 3rd attempt at compiling a kernel, I thought I had succeeded, but :
Using lilo, i picked the 'latest' option which is 2.4.18.
It boots ok, but cannot mount my vfat partition on /dev/hda1 during boot.
I get an error message :
mount: mount: /dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number
Since I also got a message 'modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-5' , I realised I had forgotten to do the 'make modules' step, so to be safe I did:
make mrproper
make xconfig
make dep
make bzImage
...and copied the bzImage to my /boot as bzImage2.4.18.10july2002 which in in my lilo.conf, and I ran lilo again. I still get the 'wrong major or minor number' but not the modprobe error.
This is on a redhat7.0 box
If I choose the old kernel from lilo, it boots ok and does find the /dev/hda1 and mounts it as vfat ok.
(old kernel is the stock rh7.0 one, 2.2.16-22)
in my /dev folder the hda's are all 3, something which I assume means major number 3, minor number = partition number ?
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Aug 24 2000 hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Aug 24 2000 hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 10 Aug 24 2000 hda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 11 Aug 24 2000 hda11
<snip snip>
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Aug 24 2000 hda2 <--This is my /boot partition (ext2)
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 Aug 24 2000 hda6 <--This is my / partition (ext2)
Any ideas ?
Cheers,
Declan
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