Arch Linux

I get the error in the image... I don't understand what I have to do
I use grub and in the menu.lst I wrote:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda6 ro devfs=nomount vga=773 apm=power-off
initrd /initrd26.img

and these are my partitions (get from /etc/fstab):
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part6 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

I don't change /etc/mkinitrd.conf, I only run "mkinitrd auto"

tpowa,

I think it needs to replace=('kernel26-scsi')

Other than my last comment, the new kernel works fine on my SATA system.

Claudio, I think you need to change device paths in your /etc/fstab to udev-like, eg. /dev/discs/disc0/part5 -> /dev/hda5.

Claudio try adding (hd?,?)/boot/initrd26.img

i was one of the lucky guys who read the news only when something goes wrong - thank you for the smooth transition (not)!

im now stuck with a 0.7 boot cd and a chrooted environment, where mkinitrd auto tells me

All of your loopback devices are in use!

yes, of course dammit. i have to mount my root dir somewhere?

$%&

allright, solved this by installing the old kernel and starting again from there...

Are you going to be enabling the hostap drivers? I'd have to compile my own kernel again, which would blow.

CONFIG_HOSTAP=y|m

You know you want to.

god dammit! it uses my fstab which used to work although i never changed the devfs entries to something udev compatible - i have to do the whole thing all over again!!!

allright... so people dont forget to change your fstab as well... NO DEVFS ENTRIES! (/dev/discs/disc0/part1 => /dev/hda1 and so on)

yes, you have to change fstab as explained above! (/dev/discs/disc0/part1 => /dev/hda1)

Please make sure that the new kernel package files as a dependency the new mkinitrd package. People already don't know what they have to pull that package manually (check that person on the forums for example who got in the trap).

You might want to include some documentation indicating that you must fill in the HOSTCONTROLLER value in /etc/mkinitrd.conf. I couldn't get my system past the busybox failure prompt until i added.

HOSTCONTROLLER_IDE="ide-core ide-generic ide-disk"

i have a lot of modules loaded:

$ lsmod |wc -l
118

this modules are loaded auto-magically!
maybe the initrd load the modules.

how i can fix this?

Yonathan, go to: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Initrd

ok updated kernel+mkinitrd, new features can be found at blog or ML.
greetings
tpowa

You really should use initramfs instead of initrd. Either immediately before the initrd is in base, or some months when everything is more stable.

Very informative read:

linux/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt

Note that this file is only very recently added (7 November or so). I've attached it.

I'm going to close this bug now.

If there are further initrd issues, we can re-open it.

The plan is to stick with the initrd for 0.7.1 -- we will examine initramfs sometime after Noodle's release.