Hang mounting proc?

dspahn · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 392

I have performed dozens of Gentoo isntallations, and never seen this problem before. On boot, the computer hangs while mounting proc. It originally hung while mounting /dev, but I recompiled the kernel. Computer is an old Sony laptop, and I have had Gentoo working on it before. If I hit CTRL-C during the hang, I get a message:

/sbin/rc: line 236: [: Integer expression Expected

Any ideas what's causing this?

Thanks!

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject:

Does /proc mount when using a boot CD?

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dspahn · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 392

Yes- I can boot from a liveCD. I used the most recent build as of yesterday. I tried chrooting into the OS and running dmesg, but just got a bunch of USB failures, that looked just like the list I got when I ran the same command from the LiveCD host OS.

Apetrini · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1158

I don't know if it's your problem but you have to enable these in your kernel (under filesystems)

dspahn · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 392

When I did the setup, I hastily set the very basic kernel options needed to boot- I always do an in-depth one at a later time. I went back and compiled the thing again, and now it boots. Thanks for the help everyone!

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:48 pm Post subject:

You're most welcome.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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Apetrini · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1158

Maybe you can add [Solved] to the first post's subject.
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