On 14 January 2011 13:41, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > doherty pete wrote: > > when kernel start ,display this > Your system seems to be missing critical device files > in /dev ! Although you may be running udev or devfs, > the root partition is missing these required files ! > To rectify this situation, please do the following: > mkdir /mnt/fixit > mount --bind / /mnt/fixit > cp -a /dev/* /mnt/fixit/dev/ > umount /mnt/fixit > rmdir /mnt/fixit > You may refer to these instructions at /etc/issue. > If you previously had an issue file, it has been > backed up at /etc/issue.devfix. Once you've fixed > your system, you will have to restore your old issue > file in order to get rid of this warning. > Thanks for using Gentoo ! :) > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40987 > > i have done: > mkdir /mnt/fixit > mount --bind / /mnt/fixit > cp -a /dev/* /mnt/fixit/dev/ > umount /mnt/fixit > rmdir /mnt/fixit > -- > pete_doherty > > It looks like some files are missing in /dev but before /dev is mounted as > tmpfs. This is what I would do to fix it. Boot a bootable CD, Knoppix, > systemrescue or whatever. Mount the root partition of Gentoo. Copy null > and console over to the dev directory on the hard drive. If you mount like > in the install guide, cp -v /dev/null /mnt/gentoo/dev and repeat for > console. If you mount differently, replace the needed parts. ;-) > > Keep in mind, when you first start to boot, /dev/ is not mounted like it is > after you get booted. So, before udev gets started making the needed files, > the system needs null and console. It seems there was a third one that was > needed but I'm not 100% sure. I always make sure to copy those two when I do > a install. No problems so far.
This problem was created because Pete did not follow to the letter the handbook, which advises to mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev, or if he did, he did not untar the stage 3 fs properly, or if he used a stage 4 tar file he did not create the necessary /dev files manually. -- Regards, Mick
