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TheEternalVortex Apprentice
Joined: 15 Oct 2002 Posts: 207 Location: San Jose, CA
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: devfs enabled, but doesn't work? |
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I definitely enabled devfs in my kernel, however, upon booting I am greeted with a message telling me that I do not have it enabled, and naturally it doesn't work. I'm not sure what to do, since I've tried recompiling it (and /proc/config verifies that I've enabled devfs). _________________ -- Andy |
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TheEternalVortex Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:43 am Post subject: |
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Oh, the kernel is gentoo-sources-r2. Maybe that is the problem? _________________ -- Andy |
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TheEternalVortex Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:59 am Post subject: |
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I've now tried compiling gentoo-sources-r1 and it still doesn't work. Very strange indeed. _________________ -- Andy |
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dol-sen Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 2805 Location: Richmond, BC, Canada
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:27 am Post subject: |
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this probably won't help but. Did you enable both /devfs and automount at boot. It sounded like you did, not sure?
Maybe try enabling debug devfs as well. It might give more info as to why it is failing.
I recently had a problem, mine wasn't running either (I did not know they changed it to require automount, old 1.2 install did not.) What I did while I was solving the problem was boot up with the install cd and copy the /dev directory to my install. It at least gave me a working system I could use to figure out where it was wrong.
Hope there is a little to help you, Brian |
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TheEternalVortex Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:18 am Post subject: |
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Ah, I checked again, and apparently I was missing the automatically mount at boot option (which is strange, since this install has been working fine for a couple months...). I enabled that, and now it doesn't give an error about there not being devfs support, but instead devfs doesn't seem to work at all. /dev doesn't have any of my devices, and as a result I am unable to boot (can't mount root because the link isn't there). _________________ -- Andy |
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TheEternalVortex Apprentice
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This seems to be related (the cause?). I'll check it out now. _________________ -- Andy |
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