On 28 Jan 2005, at 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I couldn't get devfs to work at all. There seems to be a problem with it on certain releases. udev works but follow the instructions on the udev page. (Mind you I also had problems with shadow and pam-login, sigh, and I wasn't the only one.)
That's... uh... strange that you couldn't get devfs to compile...
I didn't say I couldn't get it to compile, just that it wouldn't work. There are other
people who seem to have a problem with it as well in the forums and according
to the bugreport. I got errors saying that the root device was r/o regardless of what
I used as a filesystem. The consensus of opinion was that we should all try udev
et voila, we got to the next step. Strange but true...
If you're up for a kernel recompile/extended troubleshooting, have you tried compiling using the proto-2005.0 PPC livecd kernel? Emerge gentoo-dev-sources to get kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 and move the following file to /usr/src/linux/.config before you do make menuconfig... I would try just adding devfs support and seeing if it works.
http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/2005.config
This will produce a bloated kernel, of course, but could help in determining what's going on...
Just a thought,
No, not done that. As and when I get this install up to a decent state (I want to try a recent Gambas
build but I'm going to have to volunteer to test it it seems!) then I may try playing around on the
other partition (Gentoo-1.4). Mind you, since devfs seems to be deprecated I'm not sure if
there's going to be too much kilometerage in it. Thanks for the info though.
groetjes/greetings,
Rod (who's just got Xorg working - having copied the entries from the old XFree config file
to the new Xorg one - sigh)
-- [email protected] mailing list
