Re: [gentoo-user] strange error during boot

[John covici]

on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(joost@××××××××.org) wrote
 > On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 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@

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