CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" Had DEVTMPFS not the TMPFS ones. All others match. I don't think I've ever been into "Pseudo filesystems" before.
Well much better after adding TMPFS. /home was not mounted, otherwise looks fine. I've had this problem before, but never with the USB message confusion. I believe that is because this system has USB keyboard & mouse, while my last one had normal ones. In retrospect I should have eliminated all of the USB confusion by using the other keyboard & mouse. I think I can fix the remaining problems, thanks for your help. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Drake Donahue <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 09:07 +1000, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: >> Logged in after failed boot. >> /home & /boot are mounted, but nothing in them when I ls. >> ls of / shows all the normal things there. >> >> While logged in, I'm still getting boot messages, where USB devices, >> eg the mouse, disconnect and reconnect. >> >> There are a ridiculous number of sd devices in /dev. sda, sdb, sdc, >> sdd all go to 15. sda is the hard drive, sdb/sdc for USB devices. >> Never had sdd. >> >> Did see some errors, notably "cannot mount /run" bad superblock or >> something like that. Its hard to scroll back with USB messages >> constantly appearing, half a screenful each time. >> >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Am 08.08.2013 10:43, schrieb Daiajo Tibdixious: >> >> I got new hardware for a home desktop a few days ago. >> >> Downloaded install-amd64-minimal-20130801.iso and am still booting >> >> from that cd as hard drive boot fails. >> >> >> >> I turned on logging in /etc/rc.conf, but no /var/log/rc.log is produced. >> >> The disks are mounted but readonly. I guess from this the problem is >> >> occurring before the root partition is mounted. >> >> >> >> I only have 4 partitions: boot, swap, root, and home. Since everything >> >> important is on the root partition, I'm not using an initramfs. >> >> >> >> I have many times tried to catch the error by watching the screen, but >> >> it scrolls past way to fast. >> >> >> >> The last part of the boot messages before things go crazy is >> >> "Switching to clocksource TSC". >> >> >> >> I've been reading up on grub, but don't see anyway to get more info on >> >> what is going wrong. >> >> >> >> If I boot from the cd and chroot to the disk, everything seems to work >> >> fine. /boot is ext2 fs and this is my grug.conf: >> >> default 0 >> >> timeout 20 >> >> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >> >> >> >> title Gentoo Linux 3.8.13 >> >> root (hd0,0) >> >> kernel /boot/3.8/13-0/bzImage root=/dev/sda3 >> >> >> > >> > >> > and what is happening? >> > >> > Does kernel config have: > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y > CONFIG_FSNOTIFY=y > CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y > CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER=y > CONFIG_NET=y > CONFIG_PROC_FS=y > CONFIG_SIGNALFD=y > CONFIG_SYSFS=y > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is not set > CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG=y > CONFIG_TMPFS=y > CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y > CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR=y > > also this problem frequently results from graphics support attempting to > invoke kms support with: > modules instead of builtins > with frame buffers enabled > with the radeon driver enabled without building in appropriate > firmware > >
