Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:19:10
Message-Id: 1311592678.4623.2.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init by Adam Carter
1 On Monday, July 25 at 21:04 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
2
3 > > No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the
4 > > kernel line. Thanks.
5 >
6 > Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such
7 > device or directory.
8 >
9 > I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across - i thought it was created
10 > automagically?
11 >
12 > Anyway, its copied now and I have booted successfully from the sdb.
13
14 There is always (well usually)* an initial /dev created in root. This is needed
15 for before udev kicks in. You should always copy that (and make sure it's /dev on
16 the root fs, not the udev /dev that gets mounted over it.
17
18 * This was the cause of a bug in the stage3 tarballs a few weeks back, where some /dev
19 entries did not exist in the tarball and the result was that people were able to
20 successfully install Gentoo, but were not able to successfully boot into the
21 installation.