JimD wrote: > OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might > have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev? > > When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line > in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered: > > root (hd0,0) > Filesytem type is reiserfs... > > kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB] > Error 11: Unrecongnized device string. > > Did I break something or forget something? > > I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my > disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take > all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base > set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in? > > Jim
Sorry for a million and one questions tonight. I am leaving for vacation/holiday tomorrow and will have an 8 hour car ride. I just wanted to make sure my Gentoo laptop is good-to-go. For an FYI and for Google searches: I was able to fix the broken /dev in Gentoo by booting with the install CD, and mounting my root partition under /mnt/gentoo. I then did the following: cd / tar -zcvpf /mnt/gentoo/tmp/dev.tar.gz dev/ cd /mnt/gentoo tar -zxvpf tmp/dev.tar.gz cd / umount /mnt/gentoo reboot Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- [email protected] mailing list
