[NBLUG/talk] Vanishing nodes in /dev

[Lincoln Peters]

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
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