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On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: |
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>> On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Jake Moe wrote: |
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>>>> Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. |
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>>>> As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in |
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>>>> question). It just doesn't exist for some reason. However, fstab shows |
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>>>> that it's mounted, and /sys/block has entries for the disk, so I'm not |
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>>>> sure why it's dropped out. I'm guessing it has something to do with |
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>>>> udevd, or uevents? Because shortly before that, I tell it to find the |
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>>>> root partition at /dev/sda1, and it starts to boot, but then it loses |
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>>>> it. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Jake Moe |
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>>> The file fstab doesn't show what is mounted. Either use the command |
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>>> "mount" with no options or cat /etc/mtab to see what is actually mounted. |
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>>> Dale |
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>>> :-) :-) |
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>> Gah, it's too early. That's what I meant to say (and previously said in |
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>> my original post): when I run "mount", it shows /dev/sda1 is mounted on /. |
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>> Jake Moe |
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> I wonder if it looses the "/dev" tree when it mounts the root-partition read |
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> only prior to running the fsck. |
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> That could explain why it's not there. |
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> Try building a dummy /dev-tree on your root partition with the correct device- |
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> nodes hardcoded for /dev/sdxxxxxx and see how far you get then? |
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> Joost |
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Erm, you've gone a bit beyond my knowledge there. Are you saying I |
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should go into the maintenance console, create a dummy /devdir, and try |
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to mknod the hard drive? I assume I'd use something like 'mknod |
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/dev/sda c 8 0'? If not, what do you mean, cause you've lost me. |
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