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#1 2003-09-23 19:45:04
- contrasutra
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ANOTHER problem with 2.6 kernel
Damn you -mm4, I knew it was too good to be true.
On -mm4 (not -mm3), Whenever trying to boot into it through LILO, it says the root filesystem isnt found, and I have to apped a "root=" manually to get it to boot.
The root= entry in lilo.conf is correct, why cant it find it with the config, but it can with manual entry?!
Im thinking it has something to do with devfs, but I dont know.
PS. Why does Arch use devfs? Ive had nothing but problems with it, and its obsoleted in the 2.6 kernel.
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#2 2003-09-23 20:11:40
- sarah31
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Re: ANOTHER problem with 2.6 kernel
PS. Why does Arch use devfs? Ive had nothing but problems with it, and its obsoleted in the 2.6 kernel.
because devfs is better than a static /dev section which forces piles of pointless device files upon you.
as for devfs being "gone" in 2.6...its not it has been rewritten and now goes by a different name but with almost the same functioning.
personally i think devfs is better than both static and what i was reading about the "transformed" devfs in 2.6. maybe that is why i can side with the kernel developer departing the kernel crew that created it.
as for your problem....sounds like a lilo issue and not a devfs issue as you are saying a manual entry works if it was a devfs issue then appending root= would not work either.
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#3 2003-09-23 20:21:30
- contrasutra
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Re: ANOTHER problem with 2.6 kernel
Yeah, I didn't think it could be LILO 
. Makes sense. Is arch using the latest version?
And according the "make xconfig" for 2.6-test5, DevFS is still called that, but its marked with "OBSOLETE".
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#4 2003-09-23 22:11:00
- contrasutra
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Re: ANOTHER problem with 2.6 kernel
Some guy on OSNEWS told me how to fix it and it worked. You just have to remove one "!" from a source file. Easy.
Its in the "Linux 2.6 Kernel" thread in OSNEWS.
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