2.2.26 kernel is out

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:02:03PM -0500, Rick Sivernell took 26 lines to write:
> Lonnie
> 
>   On bootup, during the linux startup where the /dev/hda3 is to be mounted at /,
> there is no partitions to be found. the /proc/../settings has little or incorrect
> information in it, /dev/ has no hda1 - /hda7 partitions. When I use the older
> 2.4.26 kernel the system works as normal. Since the screen moves by so fast and
> no log is present because it is running from the ram system, I will not see any
> error messages.

/proc doesn't exist until after the kernel is running, procfs started, 
and / is mounted. Even then, everything in /proc is an in-core 
psuedo-filesystem, so nothing set in /proc survives a reboot. That's
what sysctl and init scripts are for.

Kurt
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