yaird unrecognized device LNXSYSTM

[alexbenington]

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Hi all,

I was trying to create a ramdisk using the following command when I get the subsequent errors.

machine1:/boot# mkinitrd.yaird -o initrd.img-2.6.18-6-amd64 2.6.18-6-amd64
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00
yaird error: unrecognised device: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00
yaird error: there were errors in this run, aborting now without output (fatal)

Does anyone know what is happening or how to resolve this? Thanks!

Alexia

[alexbenington]

Sorry for replying to my own post. Just hope that it may help someone if they encounter the same problem.

Somehow yaird hates LNXSYSTM, which is an ACPI device. So I booted with the kernel option "acpi=off". This will cause LNXSYSTM:00 not to be loaded. I was then able to create initrd with yaird. For subsequent boots, acpi can be left on.

It'll be good if someone can explain why yaird doesn't work well with LNXSYSTM:00.