/proc problem

[eivinn]

When booting it says something like
Error mounting proc, read only filesystem.
bla bla bla cannot continue.

Then I can log into "rescue mode" and ls /proc is empty.

What is this?

[soulwarrior]

Have you changed something to your system?

What does your /etc/fstab list?

[eivinn]

What I did was mirroring my / to another disk. I did this while both target and sources was mounted under root of the rescue disk... I suppose this means that /proc was not copied...

I will most likely try to mirror it again -> with mount -o bind /proc /mnt/mountpoint/proc. Just to anoying to take out the disk every time I have to do something

Is it possible to mirror with an NFS mount instead?

[soulwarrior]

I am no expert, but I think that the entires in /proc are created by the kernel at the startup.

So maybe you forget to adapt the entries in /etc/fstab to reflect the changes you made to the position of your new root?

[eivinn]

I am not really sure, but it seams like I forgot to enable devfs in kernel. Could this bring up this kind of error with /proc ??

[rtn]

No, devfs and procfs are not the same. Is the proc file system compiled
into your kernel? You might want to post your /etc/fstab too...

--rtn

[eivinn]

yes, proc fs is compiled into kernel

fstab is as follows:

/dev/hda2 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 0
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


This is how it has allways been....

[eivinn]

I now compiled a gentoo-sources kernel and booted from floppy. This worked. May be a problem with openmosix-sources then with my old computer here..