Ryan Tandy wrote: > 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 >> > A truly empty /dev is a bad thing. /dev needs to contain AT LEAST > /dev/null and /dev/console in order for the kernel and baselayout to do > their thing until udev kicks in. Those two files are all my /dev has, > and it works fine. > > HTH.
Hmm, my kernel would not boot when I created just /dev/null, /dev/console and /dev/sda* in the empty /dev. Once I did the steps I listed previously, the system booted fine. Did I miss some step with setting up udev? I have sys-fs/udev installed. What kernel options are required? Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There's no place like 127.0.0.1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JimD Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol -- [email protected] mailing list
