Re: [ILUG] mkinitrd and non-RH kernels

From: Waider (waider at domain waider.ie)
Date: Wed 04 Sep 2002 - 15:49:46 IST


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Paul Jakma wrote:
| has anyone noticed that mkinitrd does not seem to work on non-RH 2.4
| kernels?
|
| complains that no loopback devices are available. indeed losetup (at
| least RH's) just does not seem to work on non-RH 2.4 kernels.

Outta curiosity, can you strace losetup? I mean, I'm sure you've build
the loop device either into the kernel or as a module; it'd be
interesting to see where else this can fail.

Waider.
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