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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> The boot process does get a little farther but comes to a halt at |
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> Switching to clock source tsc |
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> And there it has sat for some time now. Apparently is not going to continue. |
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That EXACT symptom was EXACTLY what we saw on new hardware when we |
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didn't have the /dev/null, /dev/console issue because they were |
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missing from the recent tarballs. I actually had some photos that |
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showed it but cannot find them. Probably deleted at this point. Here's |
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a;link to the LKML thread and eventually Paul Hartman's pointer to |
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what fixed it: |
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https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/16/918 |
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Please consider reviewing the links I sent earlier about the 10 or so |
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steps required to get them into the VM correctly. |
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To verify, boot the VM with the install CD, mount the partitions and |
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just look at /dev. Is everything REALLY there? |
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If /dev/null and /dev/console are there, and are special dev files and |
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not just regular files, then make sure you are starting udev |
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explicitly in rc-update. |
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I am copying the post so you can go through them without worrying that |
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you didn't find the post I'm talking about. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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I have the exact same problem as described in post #3. |
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As this is not my first gentoo install, I also noticed that the |
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English manual does not yet reflect the baselayout2/OpenRC changes. |
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/dev isn't populated so booting with grub "init=/sbin/init 3" doesn't |
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do anything. Well, except for printing out the following. |
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Code: |
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/dev/initctl: No such file or directory |
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Here is how to fix the problem described in post #3: |
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(The problem being missing device nodes in /dev before /dev is mounted) |
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Boot from a LiveCD and chroot into your system. |
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Create the needed device nodes with the following commands. |
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Code: |
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cd ~ |
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mkdir test |
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mount --bind / test |
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cd test/dev |
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mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 |
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mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 |
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cd ../.. |
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umount test |
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rmdir test |
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(taken from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml) |
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OpenRC does not start udev by default at system startup. Make sure it |
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is started at boot: |
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Code: |
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rc-update add udev sysinit |
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