On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > On Apr 3, 2012 7:26 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz >> >> >> >> >> >> Ooops, it sort of snipped a bit much. lol Here you go: >> >> >> >> root@fireball / # zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz >> >> # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set >> >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> >> Looks like a nope to me. ;-) >> > >> > That was the reason for asking for your /usr/src/linux/.config file. >> > The udev ebuild ask for: >> > >> > CONFIG_CHECK="~BLK_DEV_BSG ~DEVTMPFS ~HOTPLUG ~INOTIFY_USER ~NET >> > ~PROC_FS ~SIGNALFD ~SYSFS ~!IDE ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED >> > ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2" >> > >> > The dracut ebuild ask for: >> > >> > CONFIG_CHECK="~BLK_DEV_INITRD ~DEVTMPFS ~MODULES" >> > >> > So please check that you have all those options (and don't have the >> > ones with !), recompile your kernel, and reboot. >> > >> > Also, the divergence between /boot/kernel... and (hd0,0)/kernel... in >> > your grub could be causing funny things. Check that also. >> > >> > Regards. >> >> >> OK. I hate modules. Can they be built into the kernel? The only >> module I have is nvidia for my video card. >> >> Also, if you can put this in one email, what about the /dev line in fstab? >> >> I didn't check the ebuild but I don't recall seeing anything when I >> emerged dracut either. o_O Maybe we are on to something here. ^_O >> > > AFAIK DEVTMPFS is not a module. You either turn it on or off. Of course, > you'll need a whole-kernel compile, but that's it. > > If you use menuconfig, IIRC there's another option right under DEVTMPFS' one > that offers to mount devtmpfs on boot. If you turn that on, you *might* get > away without a /dev in fstab.
Dale doesn't need /dev on fstab (nobody does); I only asked about it since I had no information about the dracut failure trying to mount /dev. Now I think we have enough information, and I hope that when Dale recompiles his kernel and reboots, everything will work. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
