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rberry88 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Arlington Heights, IL USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: Boot up stops to tell me about devpts and then boots fine. |
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I just installed gentoo via a stage 3 install using the gentoo-sources kernel. I followed the guide to a "T" and now when I boot up it gets right before the Interactive bootup part and stops with a countdown timer of 15 seconds that displays a whole paragraph about needing devpts compiled into the kernel because gentoo requires this (even though the guide says you don't unless you have kernel 2.6). After the timer reaches 0 or I hit enter then it finishes booting up just fine.
My question is, should I just recompile the kernel and include this and will it go away?? Or just learn to live with it?
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Earthwings Bodhisattva
Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 7753 Location: Germany
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rberry88 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Arlington Heights, IL USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Here is where I read it in the guide -- see the part about /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs :
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Code listing 7: Selecting necessary file systems
File systems --->
[*] Virtual memory file system support (former shm fs)
[*] /proc file system support
[*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*] Automatically mount at boot
(Deselect the following unless you have a 2.6 kernel)
[ ] /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs
(Select one or more of the following options as needed by your system)
<*> Reiserfs support
<*> Ext3 journalling file system support
<*> JFS filesystem support
<*> Second extended fs support
<*> XFS filesystem support
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This is from the Gentoo Handbook Installation Instructions.
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overdozed Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 77 Location: Munich/Germany
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 1:15 am Post subject: |
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that says that you shouldnt use /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs without a 2.6. kernel |
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rberry88 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 86 Location: Arlington Heights, IL USA
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:03 am Post subject: |
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Right, I understand that, but I'm wondering why it stops my bootup to tell me that I should have it compiled in my kernel. I know that the handbook tells me not to mark it to compile unless I have a 2.6 kernel. The thing is, I don't have a 2.6 kernel and its still stopping my boot (momentarily) to tell me about it.
Here is my current kernel:
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rberry88@tux rberry88 $ uname -r
2.4.22-gentoo-r5
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Should I just re-compile my kernel and include it to shut it up or is something else triggering that message to come up on bootup?
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overdozed Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 77 Location: Munich/Germany
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Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 2:08 am Post subject: |
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ok, more exactly no /dev/pts in 2.4. kernels
gentoo is not running with full optimizations without /dev filesystem support |
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