Thank you very much for responding. I was just considering wiping all the drives and starting all over again... but it seems like there must be a (fairly) easy solution to this.
Agreed, it must be some problem with config.
I wasn't thinking I had disabled /dev/null in the kernel (.config is the kernel config file, right?). I'm thinking that devfs is screwed up somehow. I put tests in the rc script and found that /dev/null exists before the mount devfs command, but does not exist afterwards. Once the
hmmmm ... which mount devfs command ? In which script ? AFAIK kernel is mounting /dev itself (if devfs support is compilled in). I do not have any line for devfs in /etc/fstab also ... if u have one, comment it out !
boot aborts, the system lets me log into a maintenance console. From there I find that I do have a /dev directory, but the only thing in it is .devfsd and initctl. Somehow, mounting devfs on /dev is wiping everything out.
It seems u run some extra (broken) devfs mount command, which replaces functional one... run "mount | grep devfs" and check it !
I suppose that this isn't too hard to believe... if I understand correctly, devfs is just a script that translates the regular /dev
listings into devfs style listings. But, in my case, something is
No, it's not a script, but pseudo (virtual) filesystem.
broken, so mounting devfs on /dev wipes out everything that was there but doesn't replace it with the new devfs listings.
I feel like I'm really close, but I'm missing that last little bit. Any ideas?? Anyone???
Look in your text.
noro
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