Ubuntu-6.10: Unknown file system 'devfs'

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:24 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 11/2/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Yes, something is clearly perverted, ancient, screwed up if you need
> devfs for anything; Ubuntu doesn't use it. I would add, unless you
> have very strange hardware, I see no need to build a kernel on Ubuntu
> (or RH for that matter). The kernel they supply is quite adequate for
> 99% of users.

I'm scared to death to burn a kernel nowadays, no telling what I would
leave out and have it blow up, not boot and make smoke. I could burn a
kernel with no sweat on Caldera. The fanciest thing on my 486 was a
cdrom! Ric
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