On Thursday 01 January 2004 01:34 am, Ben Munat wrote:
> Just wanted to follow up in case anyone was wondering.
>
> I wound up pretty much redoing the install. Everything seems to work
> now... so far. And while I was working on the reinstall, it occured to
> me what the original problem probably was. When I recompiled the kernel
> to add in devfs, I don't think I copied the new System.map over to
> /boot. Not sure what System.map does, but I have a feeling it's
> important... kind of surprised that I was able to boot at all with the
> one from the first compile. Or maybe it was something else... linux is
> just so much fun!
>
>
Call me OLD FASHION, but devfs is the first thing I dump after installing
gentoo on a new box. The steps I take are; recompile the kernel without devfs
support, add "gentoo-nodevfs" to the append line in lilo.conf, correct any
defvs associations iin lilo.con and fstab, run lilo, rc-update del devfs and
then reboot. Once booted, move to /dev and run MAKEDEV. If you are running
alsa, also run snddevices anad add in any symlinks you might need for various
applicaitons...
Once done, no more devfs MADNESS.
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