Mounting /dev for udev: Wrong fs type

madman

I cannot boot to my newly installed gentoo, all I can see is:

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Is a recent version of udev? I've read somewhere that you may need to add the line

Asante · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject:

i have the same problem... and this doesnt helped for me... :-/
anyone another idea?

ShadowEyez · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 29

I have the same problem too, and complied everything (hd support, proc, kcore, virtual mem support) in the kernel. also emerged the lastest udev (114 I think) and I get the message:
*Mounting /dev for udev . . . [oops]
* The "mount" command failed with error:

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on udev,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

*Since this is a critical task, startup cannot continue.

This is a base install on i686.

cgill27 · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 23

You forgot to set this in your kernel config:

CONFIG_TMPFS=y

ShadowEyez · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 29

set CONFIG_TMPFS=y and it still does not work (kernel 2.6.24.4) and gives the same error message

Asante · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject:

i've changed sth in my kernel, but i cant remember the option... :-/
and i have onther problem now, see:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5017124.html#5017124

xeonburn · Apprentice Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 172

Was a solution ever found to this udev problem?

Asante · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject:

no, i havent found one yet :-/

jburns · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject:

Do you have "Unix domain sockets" ( CONFIG_UNIX ) enabled?

Asante · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:01 am Post subject:

i'm not shure, i'll look it up, when i' back home. that'll be on sunday

gr0x0rd · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 311

Doing a fresh install today and ran into this problem... the kernel options in this thread solved it for me.
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undrwater · Guru Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 314 Location: Caucasia

I've got both
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y

still having the same problem with mounting both udev and shm. Kernel 2.6.24-r4.
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wjb · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject:

I had the "oops" for an install this week. The kernel config looked ok. Emerging udev (119) did the trick - it was 115-r? at the install.

DeIM · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 443

reinstalling udev solved my problem thanks very much ;-)