[NBLUG/talk] Vanishing nodes in /dev
Lincoln Peters
sampln at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 24 19:54:41 PDT 2004
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 14:18, Mark Street wrote:
> On Friday 24 September 2004 12:44, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 12:09, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > > Every time I restart my computer (running Debian/testing), I find that
> > > all of my "loop" device nodes disappear! What could cause such a thing?
> >
> > I'm still not sure what's going on, but as soon as I manually loaded the
> > "loop" module (which I thought I had set to automatically load, but I
> > apparently I had not), the "loop" device nodes re-appeared.
>
> Wierd, is this a stock kernel... 2.4.26-1? Are you using an initrd image?
> How did you set the loop module to automatically load and why????
No, it's a custom 2.6.7 kernel that I built myself. There is no initrd
image; I got the loop module to automatically load by adding it to
/etc/modules.
>
> The reason I ask. I have a stock Deb 3.1 testing system (vmware) that has all
> 8 loop devices in /dev/. No problem. I mounted the initrd image on a loop
> device to see what was inside..... kind of informative.
When I built this custom kernel, I disabled the initrd, since I could
fit all the necessary modules to get as far as init into the kernel,
then I used /etc/modules to automatically load the other modules I need
to use the computer. So far, it's worked fine.
It just seems that I forgot to add "loop" to /etc/modules when I set it
up, and that the "automatic kernel module loading" wasn't able to load
it on demand.
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Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>
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