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JimD wrote: |
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> OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might |
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> have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? |
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> When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line |
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> in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> Filesytem type is reiserfs... |
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> kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] |
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> Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. |
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> Did I break something or forget something? |
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> I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my |
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> disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take |
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> all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base |
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> set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in? |
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> Jim |
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A truly empty /dev is a bad thing. /dev needs to contain AT LEAST |
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/dev/null and /dev/console in order for the kernel and baselayout to do |
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their thing until udev kicks in. Those two files are all my /dev has, |
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and it works fine. |
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HTH. |
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