Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Pandu Poluan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Apr 3, 2012 7:26 AM, "Dale" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>>>> zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ooops, it sort of snipped a bit much. lol Here you go: >>>>> >>>>> root@fireball / # zgrep DEVTMP /proc/config.gz >>>>> # CONFIG_DEVTMPFS is not set >>>>> root@fireball / # >>>>> >>>>> Looks like a nope to me. ;-) >>>> >>>> That was the reason for asking for your /usr/src/linux/.config file. >>>> The udev ebuild ask for: >>>> >>>> CONFIG_CHECK="~BLK_DEV_BSG ~DEVTMPFS ~HOTPLUG ~INOTIFY_USER ~NET >>>> ~PROC_FS ~SIGNALFD ~SYSFS ~!IDE ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED >>>> ~!SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2" >>>> >>>> The dracut ebuild ask for: >>>> >>>> CONFIG_CHECK="~BLK_DEV_INITRD ~DEVTMPFS ~MODULES" >>>> >>>> So please check that you have all those options (and don't have the >>>> ones with !), recompile your kernel, and reboot. >>>> >>>> Also, the divergence between /boot/kernel... and (hd0,0)/kernel... in >>>> your grub could be causing funny things. Check that also. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>> >>> >>> OK. I hate modules. Can they be built into the kernel? The only >>> module I have is nvidia for my video card. >>> >>> Also, if you can put this in one email, what about the /dev line in fstab? >>> >>> I didn't check the ebuild but I don't recall seeing anything when I >>> emerged dracut either. o_O Maybe we are on to something here. ^_O >>> >> >> AFAIK DEVTMPFS is not a module. You either turn it on or off. Of course, >> you'll need a whole-kernel compile, but that's it. >> >> If you use menuconfig, IIRC there's another option right under DEVTMPFS' one >> that offers to mount devtmpfs on boot. If you turn that on, you *might* get >> away without a /dev in fstab. > > Dale doesn't need /dev on fstab (nobody does); I only asked about it > since I had no information about the dracut failure trying to mount > /dev. > > Now I think we have enough information, and I hope that when Dale > recompiles his kernel and reboots, everything will work. > > Regards.
Storm seems to have slowed down so Dale is about to reboot. Dale hopes this init thingy works too. < crosses fingers, toes, eyes and anything else crossable > I also saved the old line that works, just in case. This is me after all. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
