on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld([email protected]) wrote
> On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 pm, John covici wrote:
> > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld([email protected]) wrote
> > > On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:52 am, John covici wrote:
> > > > Hi. I just upgraded a gentoo system from about August 2008 to
> > current
> > > > -- including updating baselayout and openrt and now when I boot I
> > get
> > > > a series of messages quite early in the boot modprobe: fatal /sys is
> > > > not mounted. Eventually it does boot and all seems to work with the
> > > > exception of the script for my hsfmodem, but I am curious as to what
> > > > those message mean and if there is a way to fix them.
> > > >
> > > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Did you include sysfs support to your kernel and do you have a
> > directory
> > > '/sys'? (SYSFS)
> > > This can be found in: File systems / Pseudo filesystems in the kernel
> > > configuration.
> > >
> > > The '/sys' filesystem is as important as '/proc' these days.
> >
> > The plot thickens -- by the time I log in after booting, /sys is
> > mounted with the correct file system. Still very strange.
>
> Hmm... so, something does solve the problem you are seeing at the
> beginning later on.
> Did you update all the configuration files (including the ones in
> /etc/init.d/.. )?
> It could be that something there is not set correctly.
>
> For now, I am assuming the issue is in the boot-sequence/runlevel.
>
> Can you check which services are in your boot-runlevel?
> I have:
> bootmisc, checkfs, checkroot, clock, consolefone, hostname, keymaps,
> localmount, modules, net.lo rmnologin and urandom.
> Think these are the default ones.
>
> Do you use an initrd? If yes, did you update this as well?
I regenerated the initrd, but I am still using 2.6.20 kernel which I
will update soon, but I wonder if this is the problem -- something
wrong with the initrd, but regenerating did not fix it. In my boot
level I have
bootmisc@
consolefont@
device-mapper@
fsck@
hibernate-cleanup@
hostname@
hwclock@
keymaps@
localmount@
modules@
mtab@
net.lo@
procfs@
root@
swap@
sysctl@
termencoding@
urandom@
in my sysinit I have
devfs@
dmesg@
udev@
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John Covici
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