dev/mapper/control not found!

Bob Marcan bob at interstudio.homeunix.net
Sat May 8 07:24:21 UTC 2004


Ow Mun Heng wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Daniel Durgin [mailto:nu1sg at yahoo.com]
>>Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:20 PM
>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: dev/mapper/control not found!
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>>I downloaded the the latest kernel and source rpms
>>from arjanv.  At "make install" I get the following
>>error:
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>>dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such file or
>>directory
>>Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
>>Command failed
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>I frequently get the dev-mapper problem during compile.
>I have no idea how to fix it. I tried doig the mkdev script for
>device-mapper (from sistina), the lvm2 tools etc... but it
>still complains. Till now, I've not been successful in trying out
>LVM due to the above propblems.
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>But other than that, it's pretty safe to ignore
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>>All of your loopback devices are in use.
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>Now, if not mistaken I've faced this before. But for the life of 
>me , I can't remember what I did to solve this.
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>If not mistaken, if you tried to mount an iso image like
>mount -o loop /path/to/iso-image /mnt/iso
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>It'll give you the same issue.
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>could be you're missing something in the /dev/ filesystem. 
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>I can't remember. Can you try googling??
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>(& letting us know the results)
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>>mkinitrd failed
>>make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
>>make: *** [install] Error 2
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>>How can I fix this?  
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kernel parameter max_loop=0..255

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