Re: mkinitrd failed with 'All of your loopback devices are in use'

[John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan Yang wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I ran into a situation where I don't know how to break the catch-22 cycle.
> The scenario is like this:
> 0.  from a DELL machine with scsi device
> 1.  I installed the FreeSwan ipsec that seems like a rebuild of kernel is required
>     so that when insmod loads ipsec.o there will be no error caused by the 
>     unreferenced varibales from the current booting kernel
> 2.  I rebuilt the kernel, that went fine
> 3.  but the mkinitrd failed with the error message:
>     "Alll of your loopback devices are in use"
>     and I think the real problem could be that the loop.o was not loaded
>  

You've almost answered your own question.    When you configured this 
question it looks as though you didn't include the loopback device in 
the kernel configuration.   It's an easy thing to miss, I know I've 
missed it on several occasions.   Don't forget to include initial 
ramdisk support as well -- and don't make it a module!

jch


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