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Hi

 

My MDK 8.1, kernel 2.4.8.26-mdk system stops at

 

running DevFs deamon

invald operand:0000

CPU:0

EIP: .........

EFLAGS .........

eax .........

asi .........

ds .........

Process devfs pid 123

Stack: .........

CallTrace: .....

Code: (Lots of letters and numbers)

 

It stops there. No messages.

 

Sorry i can't copy/paste it, i'll write it all out if you need it.

I have to reset to reboot.

 

Is this a hardware problem ?, i have no problems in SuSE or Win (SuSE

and Win on hda, MDK and some vfat partitions on hdb) and i can mount

MDKs partitions (in rescue) ok.

 

I've had problems when booting with devfs twice, the first time (some

weeks ago) it put it back to the old dev system, 10 to 15 boots back, it

put it back to the devfs system.

 

I tried rescue to rebuild devfs but not knowing/finding any commands (no

man pages) i got nowhere, reiserfsck and e2fsck found no problems, i

commented out pts from fstab but it made no difference. I tried booting

with devfs=nomount but lilo would not recognize it, not in lilo i guess.

 

I had no luck with your DB or google.

 

Can you give me any help or pointers.

 

Thanks

 

Ed

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The kernel in mdk 9.00 is actually faster than mdk 8.1 Some of the apps are now more bloated than 8.1, guess it depends on what apps you install. mdk needs more ram than it does cpu speed. Having said that, the min requirments are :

Processor: an x586-class or above processor is required. This includes Intel Pentium I/II/III/IV, AMD K6/II/III, AMD Duron, AMD Athlon/XP/MP.

Memory: at least 64 MB is required; 128 MB is recommended.

If you decide not to upgrade, maybe someone more qualified here can help you fix 8.1

Other than what steps you have already tried, i don't know what else to sugest, other than back up your stuff and re-install.

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I changed the devfs=mount to devfs=nomount in lilo.conf but it still loaded the devfsd, then out of desperation i tried reiserfsck again on / but this time i did

reiserfsck --rebuild-tree and it fixed it, dmesg says 'Mounted devfs on /dev'.

I'll see if devfs has an update for 8.1.

 

Thanks anon for your help.

 

Ed

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