Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-25, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: > >> On 2009-01-24, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:55:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I have a server running that hets that null/console missing >>>> message every boot - and it does not hurt it at any way. >>>> >>> A missing /dev/console stops the boot process here. It boots >>> without /dev/null, but only after udev spews out a load of >>> messages. >>> >> Ah, not to worry: I've been assured in the gentoo forum thread >> that the problems we see when the root filesystem doesn't have >> proper /dev/null and /dev/console nodes aren't really >> happening: >> >> Neither /dev/null nor /dev/console are needed at boot-time, >> therefore their absence doesn't cause problems. >> > > For posterity's sake, one of the problems that wasn't happening > was that my root partition always had to be recovered at > startup -- it apparently wasn't getting properly unmounted > during shutdown. After re-creating the root partition's /dev > tree, that was cured. > > This leads one to suspect that the block device node for the > root partition (/dev/hda3 in my case) is also required along > with /dev/null and /dev/console for proper start-up and > shut-down. > >
Well just to confirm that this is not happening, I ran into the same thing a good while back when I was transferring my system from one disk to another. I didn't copy /dev, /sys, /proc and something else. I had to reboot from the CD and copy all the /dev/stuff so I could boot. At the time I didn't know what I "didn't" have to have. Note there is a bit of sarcasm there. It appears that they are needed but some just "think" we don't. My rig, Abit NF7 mobo with a AMD 2500+ rig using udev like I guess everybody else is. Weird. Dale :-) :-)
