Hi all! Have got a nasty error on upgrading my kernel, using make-kpkg, to 2.6.9. I didn't change very much, just wanted to take advantage of the updated ACPI code. Specifically, the problem is that /dev is completely broken. It shows up but I can't cd into it (Not a Directory).
I seem to be using udev; I couldn't honestly say whether I was using it before, but it is installed (0.046 I think). The errors only start coming up after INIT; it says 'Mounting a tmpfs over /dev...done and Creating initial device nodes...done' but warns that '.udevdb exists on existing /dev'. The errors are all along the lines of not being able to find nodes in /dev, and it asks to go into maintenance mode upon not being able to find /dev/hda3, my root. Funnily enough, it does mount this and I can remount it read-write in the usual way: mount -t ext2 -o remount,rw /dev/hda3 /
My first instinct was to rollback to 2.6.8.1 which worked for me. However, since I can't stat /dev/hda, I can't update lilo! I've downloaded gnoppix to help, but doe anyone have any ideas as to how I can get my system working again?? Please ask if I've left out crucial stuff.
Many thanks, Matt (on-list)
Although I have no idea what is causing your problem, it may be helpful to know that udev will bind /.dev to your old /dev, so you can access any needed nodes there. Of course you could always stop udev with '/etc/init.d/udev stop' and that should unmount the tmpfs and may temporarily resolve the problem, allowing you to investigate further. udev needs hotplug: you did include that in your new kernel, right? Just a thought..
Michael Spang
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