devfs enabled, but doesn't work?

TheEternalVortex · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:40 am Post subject: devfs enabled, but doesn't work?

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).
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TheEternalVortex · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:43 am Post subject:

Oh, the kernel is gentoo-sources-r2. Maybe that is the problem?
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TheEternalVortex · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 3:59 am Post subject:

I've now tried compiling gentoo-sources-r1 and it still doesn't work. Very strange indeed.
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dol-sen · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 4:27 am Post subject:

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

TheEternalVortex · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:18 am Post subject:

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).
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TheEternalVortex · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 5:43 am Post subject:

This seems to be related (the cause?). I'll check it out now.
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TheEternalVortex · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2003 6:14 am Post subject:

The problem turned out to be gawk 3.1.2, as outlined here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=43560
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