[SOLVED] Re: udev + custom vanilla kernel - modules - initrd

[Serge de Souza]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:29 +0800, Serge de Souza wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know how to get FC3 to run with a custom vanilla kernel that 
>>does not have any modules (hence usage of initrd is not possible) ? I 
<  snip  >
>>But when the system boots, there are errors when start_dev runs saying 
>>something like " /dev/pts Not a directory"
>>
>>
>>All suggestions welcome
>>
>>Serge
>>
> 
> 
> Hi, I had similar problems which could be solved by
> 
> 1. Configure the vanilla kernel with shm
> 2. make an initrd by "mkinitrd" or "make install" during kernel
> generation.


Thanks that solved it! I didn't have shm enabled... mkinitrd would not 
work because there are no modules in my kernel, but all that was needed 
was shm.

I knew that the vague error message would be meaningful to someone who 
had encountered the problem.

Thanks again.

Serge