On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:25, Randall A. Jones wrote:
> I am trying to install a new kernel. I need to create a new initrd image
> for booting from SCSI.
>
> first, loopback device files aren't present at boot until I manually do
> modprobe loop.
> then
> mkinitrd complains:
>
> mkinitrd -f --with=loop initrd-2.2.15-3SGI_39_2G.img 2.2.15-3SGI_39_2G
> cp: /dev/ram: No such file or directory
> cp: /dev/systty: No such file or directory
Configure your modutils with the following alias entries:
/dev/ram rd
/dev/loop loop
Also make sure that you have MKOLDCOMPAT entries for the ram disk.
As for systty, what is it anyway? It's not mentioned in
linux/Documentation/devices.txt...
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