Ubuntu-6.10: Unknown file system 'devfs'

Net Llama! netllama
Thu Nov 2 07:46:38 PST 2006


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>>> I built kernel 2.6.18.1 using config-2.6.17-generic. I forgot what I
>>> have disabled, but when the new kernel booted, it reported an error
>>> regarding devfs. Which kernel option is it referring to?
>>
>> Hard to say since you didn't post the error.
>
> The init complained about something like "unknown filesystem type devfs
> ...". I don't want to reboot the server again.

Clearly it expects you to have devfs support, which was removed a few 
kernel versions ago.

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