Re: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread Jens-Ulrik Petersen
Thanks for your reply. "John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are they there? > [summer@dugite summer]$ ls /dev/loop? > brw-rw1 root 7, 0 May 6 1998 /dev/loop0 > brw-rw1 root 7, 1 May 6 1998 /dev/loop1 > brw-rw1 root 7, 2 May 6 1998

Re: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there anything else that needs to be done to enable the loop > devices? Are they there? [summer@dugite summer]$ ls /dev/loop? brw-rw1 root 7, 0 May 6 1998 /dev/loop0 brw-rw1 root 7, 1 May 6 1998 /dev/loop1 brw-rw1 root

Re: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread Jens-Ulrik Petersen
Thanks for the fast reply, Bill. "Bill Nottingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens-Ulrik Petersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and trying to upgrade to > > 2.4.0-0.43.12 (before that also tried 2.4.0-0.43.11). I seem to have > > trouble with my

Re: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread Tony Nugent
On Fri Jan 12 2001 at 11:32, Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote: > I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and trying to upgrade to > 2.4.0-0.43.12 (before that also tried 2.4.0-0.43.11). I seem to have > trouble with my loop devices, since: > > % sudo mkinitrd -v --omit-scsi-modules /boot/initrd-

Re: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > (I get this for all the first 8 loop devices.) > % sudo losetup /dev/loop8 loop: can't open device /dev/loop8: No such > device > What's wrong? Any ideas how to fix this? (I get this same on another > machine also running RH7 and 2.4.0-test11.) Sounds to me like yo

Re: mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jens-Ulrik Petersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and trying to upgrade to > 2.4.0-0.43.12 (before that also tried 2.4.0-0.43.11). I seem to have > trouble with my loop devices, since: > > % sudo mkinitrd -v --omit-scsi-modules /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.43

mkinitrd: All of your loopback devices are in use! (was: Re: kernel-2.4.0-0.43.4)

2001-01-11 Thread Jens-Ulrik Petersen
"Edward S. Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A word to the wise: if you don't currently need initrd to get your system > online, don't blindly upgrade to 2.4.0-0.43.4; do: > > mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.43.4.img 2.4.0-0.43.4 I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and

Re: Redhat contrib ftp directory: How do I contribute

2001-01-11 Thread Terry Barnaby
Thanks, "Edward S. Marshall" wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Terry Barnaby wrote: > > I was going to put it in the contrib directory of the FTP server. > > However I cannot find any information on how to do this. > > Upload it to ftp://incoming.redhat.com/libc[56]/ . > > -- > Edward S. Marshall <[

Re: linux kernel 2.4.0-0.43.12 RAID

2001-01-11 Thread Daniel Hammer
BS"D excellent question, I have the same problem and would appreciate any solution! Best, Daniel. > > Anybody got the Rawhide kerenl to work with RAID ? > > I have a 2 disk IDE RAID with the md drivers. > > The 2.2 kernel with the Red Hat patches allow booting > > with / and /boot as RAID sets.