On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> writes: > >> As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right >> now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped >> him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, >> didn't include all the required /dev stuff in the stage3 tarball which >> caused the machine to not boot. Maybe that's what you're seeing? I > > I'm at the stage right now of trying to boot from the vm harddrive. > What is missing from stage3? Maybe I can get it straightened out now > before turning the vm on its own. > > >
/dev/null and /dev/console Look at this post. Check the instructions near the bottom from kswtch as I can confirm they work. The only catch is if your work created a normal file under /dev then erase before creating the new device files: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gentoo-87/booting-stops-after-kernel-starts-883031/ It was a unique failure I hadn't seen before. There was another method reported to fix this that had to do with a file system called 'devtmpfs' that creates what's needed on the fly (I guess) but I didn't think I was the person to try that out. Hope this helps, Mark
