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From: Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install?
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:36:23
Message-Id: 44542E08.8040604@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Broken install? by JimD
1 JimD wrote:
2 > OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might
3 > have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev?
4 >
5 > When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line
6 > in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered:
7 >
8 > root (hd0,0)
9 > Filesytem type is reiserfs...
10 >
11 > kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB]
12 > Error 11: Unrecongnized device string.
13 >
14 > Did I break something or forget something?
15 >
16 > I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my
17 > disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take
18 > all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base
19 > set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in?
20 >
21 > Jim
22 >
23 A truly empty /dev is a bad thing. /dev needs to contain AT LEAST
24 /dev/null and /dev/console in order for the kernel and baselayout to do
25 their thing until udev kicks in. Those two files are all my /dev has,
26 and it works fine.
27
28 HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>