Chris van der Pennen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Also, if you can get the kernel's output from when it fails to mount
> your root partition and post it to the list, it'd be of great
> assistance.  Enabling CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE in your kernel and booting
> with console=ttyS0 will dump the startup messages on the serial port,
> which you can capture with another machine.

As I have explained in previous post, now I can boot but still have some
issues to resolve: unknown groups & error comparing kernel modules for ...

Unfortunately, I just have my home machine and cannot capture startup
messages.

Somehow, my feeling is that my /dev is the culprit. What is the prope way to
migrate /dev from old to new / partition?

Is it safe to comment out old compatibility mode for old devices in 
devfsd.conf?

Sincerely,
Gour

> 
> Chris
> 
> PS.  For what it's worth, my fstab: (comments removed)
> 
> /dev/hda2               /boot           ext2           
> noauto,noatime          1 1
> /dev/evms/root          /               reiserfs       
> noatime                 0 1
> 
> /var/swapfile           none            swap           
> loop                    0 0
> 
> proc                    /proc           proc           
> defaults                0 0
> 
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm        tmpfs          
> defaults                0 0
> 
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd     /mnt/cdrom      auto   
> ro,noauto,user,exec     0 0
> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd     /mnt/cdrw       auto   
> ro,noauto,user,exec     0 0
> 
> /dev/hda1                       /mnt/windows/c  ntfs   
> defaults,umask=0000             0 0
> /dev/hda3                       /mnt/windows/d  vfat   
> defaults,umask=0000             0 0
> /dev/hdf1                       /mnt/windows/h  ntfs   
> defaults,umask=0000             0 0
> 
> 192.168.0.2:/usr/portage        /usr/portage    nfs     tcp,hard,intr  
> 0 0
> 
> On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:41, Gour wrote:
> 
> > Chris van der Pennen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Here I'm again with my attempt to put / on evms2.
> > 
> > > Works fine for me, migrated from EVMS1.  I can send you my initrd, if
> > > you want.  Your linuxrc might be a bit wonky or something.  I created my
> > > initrd and linuxrc by hand, from the INSTALL.initrd instructions.
> > 
> > I did manually all the steps according to INSTALL.initrd and copied
> > linuxrc from evms-2.1.1 tarball, but still no success.
> > 
> > Several mount points are not mounted (eg. /usr, /usr/portage, /sbin), while
> > others are (eg. /opt/ /var ..).
> > 
> > Here is the fstab:
> > 
> > /dev/hda2               /boot           ext3            noauto,noatime
> > 1 1
> > #/dev/hdc3              /               reiserfs        noatime
> > 0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_root       /               reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_swap      swap            swap            sw              0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_usr        /usr            reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_portage    /usr/portage    reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_gentootmp  /gentoo_tmp     reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_home       /home           reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_opt        /opt            reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > /dev/evms/lv_var        /var            reiserfs        noatime         0 0
> > #/dev/hda1              /mnt/win98      vfat            noauto,user
> > 0 0
> > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/dvd-r      auto            noauto,ro,user,exec
> > 0 0
> > /dev/cdroms/cdrom1      /mnt/cd-r       auto            noauto,ro,user,exec
> > 0 0
> > /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto,user,sync
> > 0 0
> > # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
> > none                    /proc           proc            defaults
> > 0 0
> > 
> > # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
> > # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
> > # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
> > #  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
> > # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
> > 
> > none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults
> > 0 0
> > 
> > /dev/hdc3 is my "spare" ie. present / partition.
> > 
> > I'm also considering that data on /dev/evms/lv_root are not properly copied 
> > from the present / partition, so the question is howto migrate data from
> > present / partition to /dev/evms/lv_root, ie. howto migrate bin dev etc lib
> > mnt proc root sbin service share tmp directories which are under /?
> > 
> > And, yes, please send me your initrd to see what is happening.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Gour
> 
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