Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 6 May 2001 19:00:02 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mohammad A. Haque" <> | Subject | Re: problem when booting 2.4.2 |
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On Sun, 6 May 2001, sri gg wrote:
> Hello, > I recently compiled the 2.4.2 kernel on x86, > and installed it. when booting off it, it fails to > open the /dev/tty's and dumps the following messages.. > ========================================= > May 6 02:32:40 localhost /sbin/mingetty[786]: > /dev/tty4: No such file or direct > ory
I think you may have compiled in devfs support. You need to run devfsd so it can map the old device names so programs like mingetty don't freak out. I don't have the url handy but you can search for it on freshmeat.net
> > Another question which i wanted to ask was, how does > the new kernel know where to find the new compiled > modules in the /lib/modules directoy? I have my old > modules in /lib/modules/2.2.16, and my new modules > under /lib/modules/2.4.2.
The kernel will automagically look for modules in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/. <kernel version> will be whatever the output of uname -r is on your currently running kernel.
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