Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

[John covici]

on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(joost@××××××××.org) wrote
 > On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:26 pm, John covici wrote:
 > > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(joost@××××××××.org) wrote
 > >  > On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 pm, John covici wrote:
 > >  > > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(joost@××××××××.org) wrote
 > >  > >  > On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:52 am, John covici wrote:
 > >  > >  > > Hi.  I just upgraded a gentoo system from about August 2008 to
 > >  > > current
 > >  > >  > > -- including updating baselayout and openrt and now  when I boot
 > > I
 > >  > > get
 > >  > >  > > a series of messages quite early in the boot modprobe: fatal
 > > /sys is
 > >  > >  > > not mounted.  Eventually it does boot and all seems to work with
 > > the
 > >  > >  > > exception of the script for my hsfmodem, but I am curious as to
 > > what
 > >  > >  > > those message mean and if there is a way to fix them.
 > >  > >  > >
 > >  > >  > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
 > >  > >  >
 > >  > >  > Did you include sysfs support to your kernel and do you have a
 > >  > > directory
 > >  > >  > '/sys'? (SYSFS)
 > >  > >  > This can be found in: File systems / Pseudo filesystems in the
 > > kernel
 > >  > >  > configuration.
 > >  > >  >
 > >  > >  > The '/sys' filesystem is as important as '/proc' these days.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > The plot thickens -- by the time I log in after booting, /sys is
 > >  > > mounted with the correct file system.  Still very strange.
 > >  >
 > >  > Hmm... so, something does solve the problem you are seeing at the
 > >  > beginning later on.
 > >  > Did you update all the configuration files (including the ones in
 > >  > /etc/init.d/.. )?
 > >  > It could be that something there is not set correctly.
 > >  >
 > >  > For now, I am assuming the issue is in the boot-sequence/runlevel.
 > >  >
 > >  > Can you check which services are in your boot-runlevel?
 > >  > I have:
 > >  > bootmisc, checkfs, checkroot, clock, consolefone, hostname, keymaps,
 > >  > localmount, modules, net.lo rmnologin and urandom.
 > >  > Think these are the default ones.
 > >  >
 > >  > Do you use an initrd? If yes, did you update this as well?
 > >
 > > I regenerated the initrd, but I am still using 2.6.20 kernel which I
 > > will update soon, but I wonder if this is the problem -- something
 > > wrong with the initrd, but regenerating did not fix it.  In my boot
 > > level I have
 > > bootmisc@
 > > consolefont@
 > > device-mapper@
 > > fsck@
 > > hibernate-cleanup@
 > > hostname@
 > > hwclock@
 > > keymaps@
 > > localmount@
 > > modules@
 > > mtab@
 > > net.lo@
 > > procfs@
 > > root@
 > > swap@
 > > sysctl@
 > > termencoding@
 > > urandom@
 > > in my sysinit I have
 > > devfs@
 > > dmesg@
 > > udev@
 > 
 > Do you have "device-mapper" in your boot-level?
 > In that case, you might want to check which init-script mounts the '/sys'
 > filesystem as this script requires the /sys filesystem to be mounted.
 > 
 > May I ask why you have this added as I don't use it with my LVM drives.
 > 
I don't really need it, but it was auto added by the ebuild.

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