----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:35 PM Subject: Re: "Can't read superblock" booting 2.4.anything"
> "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For some reason, any 2.4 kernel I try and boot (I've compiled two > > from Benh's tree, and got 1 deb from walters and 1 deb from Jonas) I > > get the same error: > > > > it tells me it can't read the superblock, make sure I have a valid partion, > > etc and throughs me into single user mode. If I try and fsck it tells me > > the file or directory doesn't exist, yet I can mount it and see everything. > > e.g.: > > Duh! I should have realized this earlier. The problem is devfs, > which both benh and I have enabled by default, and apparently Jonas > does as well. > > You have three choices. Add 'devfs=nomount' to the append= options > for these kernels, or rebuild without devfs support, or do 'apt-get > install devfsd' (assuming you're running testing/sid). Thanks Colin, 'apt-get install devfsd' did the trick. I feel stupid for not seeing that before, of course. 20/20 hind sight. Thanks to Colin, Peter, Chad and Ethan for their timely help in resolving this. John
