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From: John Jolet <john@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:19:41
Message-Id: 200604292338.54010.john@jolet.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed by JimD
1 >
2 > For an FYI and for Google searches:
3 >
4 > I was able to fix the broken /dev in Gentoo by booting with the install
5 > CD, and mounting my root partition under /mnt/gentoo. I then did the
6 > following:
7 >
8 > cd /
9 > tar -zcvpf /mnt/gentoo/tmp/dev.tar.gz dev/
10 > cd /mnt/gentoo
11 > tar -zxvpf tmp/dev.tar.gz
12 > cd /
13 > umount /mnt/gentoo
14 > reboot
15 >
16 > Jim
17 that should not have been necessary. my grey hairs are telling me you'll
18 encounter other problems down the road.... is udev enabled in the kernel?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Broken install? - Fixed JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>