Re: Kernel recompilation error

[Darren Williams]

Hi Rahul
As a guess the kernel you are compiling on
does not have loopback enabled and therefore
you are seeing this message.

I use to see this message on RH7 and 8 if
I had no loopback device.

Darren

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Rahul Jain wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is the first time I am seeing this error while recompiling the
> kernel. Could someone plz explain what it means and how to fix it.
> 
> I get this error message when I run the command 'make install'. Till this
> point everything else works out properly.
> 
> Error Message
> -------------
> All of your loopback devices are in use.
> mkinitrd failed
> 
> The commands run before this were
> make mrproper
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make bzImage
> make modules and
> make modules_install
> 
> Thanks,
> Rahul.
> 
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