Persistant DEVFS problem with 2.6.3-rc1

spewy · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 35

I have all the devfs options on but some script is still flaggin it as being missing on boot. I'm guessing that this is also the root of my problems with getting alsa up and running.

What methods can I use to pin down this problem some more????

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

Look at the time and date output by

SlimDady · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 14

I am also getting the same error on boot.

I have recompiled my kernel with /dev supprt (obsolete) or wahtever it says tehre

make && make modules_install

I mounted boot. I removed the old kernel and system map, replaced it with the newly compiled one.. and im still getting that damn error on boot..

spewy · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 35

There is only one kernel in /boot and its the one that I set grub to look at. Oddly enough uname -a has the time stamp as the 10th of march......

How can that be. Only one kernel in /boot/ which has a time stamp of the 13th.

Even more curious.... my grub folder in /boot has gone

spewy · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 35

So itrs not only me then!

Skotlex · Guru Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 306

Hmm... could it be that ghosts have stolen your newly compiled kernels? Or could it be that you forgot to mount /boot before copying the new kernel over? Questions, questions...

EDIT: Oh yeah, if you are having problems starting devfs, you could also try setting your kernel so that it automatically mounts it on boot time.

spewy · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 35

A ha!!! dev/hda1 not mounted indeed!

Gee... why oh why does linux allow you to browse a folder that isn't mounted!!!!

Thanks buddy

Skotlex · Guru Joined: 13 Mar 2004 Posts: 306

I've often wondered this... it'd be great help if you couldn't cd into an umounted directory, but I think that's not possible because the mount point directory is a normal directory. It's transparent to the user which thing is mounted where... the only way to know if a directory is or not mounted is by looking at the contents of it (altough I wonder what happens to files that you copy inside /boot and then mount a partition over it...). Now that I recall, the kernel now has something called supermount which is supposed to mount resources automatically when you need them, altough I think that was just meant for removable media.

Buge

SlimDady · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 14

weird ok.. i used my live cd

i mounted the partitions like in the guide.. recompiled my kernel using the live cd, installed it to boot

then rebooted and now for somereason it mounted dev fine

spewy · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 35

Seriously, you should not be able to open and modify a folder if it hasn't been mounted... folders declared in fstab should be protected in some fashion.