I can fix this with appending devfs=mount into the kernel options.
Actually, I can't. It's not working.
I also read through some of the other emails and I don't have a /proc/config entry to read off my kernel configuration, but 'grep DEVFS /usr/src/linux/.config' shows that I have:
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
and it's still not working.
I made an earlier comment about this not being in the kernel and was met with some skepticism at the time. I think that the difference is that my installation was from Stage1. I don't know if it matters or not.
But I was surpised to find some of the settings I did find (and not find) in the kernel source configuration and the lack of any mention in the documentation:
DEVFS support is not enabled
SMP is default
and the aforementioned /proc/config option...
I don't recall any others right now, but this leads me to believe the the gentoo-source kernel has not been completely updated to be a working copy of the kernel based on their largest x86 architecture population (single CPU with DEVFS for starters) or that it may be in an inconcistent state between the two.
Further review of the Installation tells me as a recovery I could reboot with the CD, copy the /proc/config into a file on my partitions and try that. But it seems kind of strange that if I can boot from the LiveCD, and that I am downloading the gentoo-sources and not the vanilla-sources, that these kernel sources are not already based upon the working LiveCD configuration file but something that is entirely incompatable with the architectural design of gentoo for x86.
I'll try the LiveCD process and if that works then I'm off to find out why all my modules are missing and where I can get AGP support even though that is also compiled into the kernel....
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