[gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event
The following message is displayed on boot. The system works fine despite the message, but I'd still like to know what the cause is and fix it. udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Any ideas? Thanks, Dave -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event
2008/6/21 dhk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Check your udev rules. I think he tries to make a symlink to /dev/fb but it's a directory so he can't. Ward -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event
Ward Poelmans wrote: 2008/6/21 dhk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: udevd-event[3796]: node symlink: rename(/dev/fb.udev-tmp, /dev/fb) failed: Is a directory Check your udev rules. I think he tries to make a symlink to /dev/fb but it's a directory so he can't. Ward I looked in /etc/udev/rules.d but I not sure how all that's used. What are the rules suppose to be? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error - udevd-event
2008/6/21 dhk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I looked in /etc/udev/rules.d but I not sure how all that's used. What are the rules suppose to be? Here you can find everything about udev rules: http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html You should look for a rule that with SYMLINK=/dev/fb or something alike in it. Ward -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] boot error
Hello, I have several new portables to install. On an HP9000z I reformatted the hard drive and used liveCD 2007.0. I performed the most basic installation (no X, KDE ) The installation ran to completion. The installation process declared itself successful. Upon reboot I get this error message: Block Device /dev/sda4 is not a valid root device... The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell... The partitioning is quite simple sda1 ntfs vista(soon) sda2 reiserfs /boot sda3 swap ada4 reiserfs / Trying sda2 does not work either. Is the best method to rescue this install to use the minimal cd and fdisk and mark the sda2 partition as a boot. I'm about ready to use the Handbook and perform the install the old way... Any suggestions? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error
James wrote: Hello, I have several new portables to install. On an HP9000z I reformatted the hard drive and used liveCD 2007.0. I performed the most basic installation (no X, KDE ) The installation ran to completion. The installation process declared itself successful. Upon reboot I get this error message: Block Device /dev/sda4 is not a valid root device... The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell... The partitioning is quite simple sda1 ntfs vista(soon) sda2 reiserfs /boot sda3 swap ada4 reiserfs / Trying sda2 does not work either. Is the best method to rescue this install to use the minimal cd and fdisk and mark the sda2 partition as a boot. I'm about ready to use the Handbook and perform the install the old way... Any suggestions? James What's the drive mappings look like in the bios, I've had issues with sata (I assume) in the past and funky drive mappings because of the bios. It's also possible you missed the sata drivers in the kernel. Did you use genkernel or did you do it by hand? --Joshua Doll -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:04:53 + (UTC), James wrote: Upon reboot I get this error message: Block Device /dev/sda4 is not a valid root device... The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell... You probably haven't compiled the driver for your disk controller into the kernel (not as a module). -- Neil Bothwick I am a computer -- dumber than any human and smarter than an administrator. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error
--- James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have several new portables to install. On an HP9000z I reformatted the hard drive and used liveCD 2007.0. I performed the most basic installation (no X, KDE ) The installation ran to completion. The installation process declared itself successful. Upon reboot I get this error message: Block Device /dev/sda4 is not a valid root device... The root block device is unspecified or not detected. Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell... The partitioning is quite simple sda1 ntfs vista(soon) sda2 reiserfs /boot sda3 swap ada4 reiserfs / Trying sda2 does not work either. Is the best method to rescue this install to use the minimal cd and fdisk and mark the sda2 partition as a boot. I'm about ready to use the Handbook and perform the install the old way... Any suggestions? James -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list This same problem has been handled on gentoo-user bout a billion times. Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error
On Monday 23 July 2007 22:04:53 James wrote: Any suggestions? Add doscsi to the kernel command line in grub. -- Mike Williams -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] boot error
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: This same problem has been handled on gentoo-user bout a billion times. And how does that comment help the OP? Without a link to the list archives, all it tells him is that he is not the first to experience this. Incidentally, Google shows somewhat less than a billion previous instances of this question. Results 1 - 11 of 11 from archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user for not a valid root device. -- Neil Bothwick From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
