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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AAC RAID Adaptec RAID array. Booting trouble
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:48:43
Message-Id: 200706051535.38633.alan@linuxholdings.co.za
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] AAC RAID Adaptec RAID array. Booting trouble by sa8o1age
1 On Tuesday 05 June 2007, sa8o1age wrote:
2 > >> Booting (initramfs)..switch_root: Bad console '/dev/console'
3 >
4 > Kernel panic - not syncing : Attempted to kill init
5
6 You don't have a static /dev/console node in /dev BEFORE udev is mounted
7 there. You'll have to bind-mount / somewhere to get access to it and
8 create the node:
9
10 mount -o bind / /mnt/<some-place>
11 mknod /mnt/<some-place>/dev/console b 5 1
12 umount /mnt/<some-place/
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14 alan
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20 Pessimists say the glass is half empty,
21 Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be?
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23 Alan McKinnon
24 alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
25 +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
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