Re: mkinitrd failed with 'All of your loopback devices are in use'

2003-10-03 Thread James Olin Oden
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Alan Yang wrote: > Hello, > > I ran into a situation where I don't know how to break the catch-22 cycle. > The scenario is like this: > 0. from a DELL machine with scsi device > 1. I installed the FreeSwan ipsec that seems like a rebuild of kernel is required > so that

Re: mkinitrd failed with 'All of your loopback devices are in use'

2003-10-03 Thread John Haxby
Alan Yang wrote: so, I am stuck. what to do? I cannot reboot because it would panic and if I do mkinitrd trying to make a valid img file that would also fail due to the loop.o wasn't in the kernel that I booted from. Boot the standard Red Hat kernel and then run mkinitrd. jch _

Re: mkinitrd failed with 'All of your loopback devices are in use'

2003-10-03 Thread Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
Hi, Section 3.3 of the kernel HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/) might be applicable to this situation. Venkatesh > > I am still bit confused actually. So, I think these have to be done: > 1. run 'make xconfig' to make sure the loopback support is selected > as built in(not

RE: mkinitrd failed with 'All of your loopback devices are in use'

2003-10-03 Thread Alan Yang
I am still bit confused actually. So, I think these have to be done: 1. run 'make xconfig' to make sure the loopback support is selected as built in(not module) 2. run 'make dep; make bzImage' to rebuild the kernel 3. copy the bzImage just built to /boot and make grub.conf to use the ne

Re: mkinitrd failed with 'All of your loopback devices are in use'

2003-10-03 Thread John Haxby
Alan Yang wrote: Hello, I ran into a situation where I don't know how to break the catch-22 cycle. The scenario is like this: 0. from a DELL machine with scsi device 1. I installed the FreeSwan ipsec that seems like a rebuild of kernel is required so that when insmod loads ipsec.o there wil