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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: Source Mage - Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] 2.4.6-test2 kernel
  • Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:36:03 +0200

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:09:03PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote:
> Not sure what was needed. But had to make all the modules that I know my
> system needed built into the kernel to get it to boot without blanking
> the screen.
>
> Has anyone gotten the 2.6.0 test kernel to work with the new init
> system? And if so what did you have to change to get past these errors?
>
> modprobe: FATAL: Module shm not found
> fs type shm not supported by kernel
> Error setting event mask Device or resource busy
>
> I do have the "Virtual memory files system support (former shm fs)"
> turned on in the kernel configure.

You'll need to change your fstab, iirc shmfs was replaced by tmpfs in
the 2.6 kernel, so you'll have to mount tmpfs on /dev/shm instead of
shm.


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