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 !
The mount devfs command is in /sbin/rc. I tried taking it out and the system will boot after that, but devfs is not mounted. I too thought the kernel would mount devfs on /dev automatically, but it appears not. I tried the devfs line in fstab yesterday... didn't work so I took it out.
It seems u run some extra (broken) devfs mount command, which replaces functional one... run "mount | grep devfs" and check it !
Not following you here... are you thinking that "mount | grep devfs" would show two devfs entries? When I log into the maintenance console (after the aborted boot) and check mount, the only things that show up are /root and /proc. However, the file .devfsd does exist in /dev and there is a devfs entry in /proc/filesystems. This is how the devfs docs
(http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html#what-is-it)
say to tell if devfs is compiled in the kernel and mounting... unfortunately, they don't say anything about devfs mounting but coming up empty!.
> > No, it's not a script, but pseudo (virtual) filesystem. >
It seems like I was able to cat devfs somewhere, but maybe not... in any case, it still needs to do some translating from the default /dev hierarchy into the devfs format. And that it certainly not working for me. Argh... it's so frustrating.
> > Look in your text. >
Didn't follow you here. Thanks for your help so far... any other ideas?
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