Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:22 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. James Wall I tried doing the steps that I found in my google search as previously posted. It somewhat resolved the problem, but I still got error messages. Since I was tired at this point, I gave up. This morning, I tried what was suggested and used an earlier stage 3 tarball (Apr. 24th, I believe it was). This solved the problem and I was able to boot. Must have been an issue with the stage 3 tarball I had previously tried. Thanks for the help and comments, everyone! If you are interested in that kind of thing, the full detail of what the problem is can be found here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. James Wall
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote: I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine. James Wall I tried doing the steps that I found in my google search as previously posted. It somewhat resolved the problem, but I still got error messages. Since I was tired at this point, I gave up. This morning, I tried what was suggested and used an earlier stage 3 tarball (Apr. 24th, I believe it was). This solved the problem and I was able to boot. Must have been an issue with the stage 3 tarball I had previously tried. Thanks for the help and comments, everyone! Regards, Colleen
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
Hi all, this issue is being worked currently. The bug you want to follow is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597 William pgp10T4IhBQ71.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Install issue
Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one. I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was careful that I didn't miss anything and I couldn't boot, the 3rd time I rechecked everything and the same issue arose. I am able to get my boot menu, the drivers appear to load - the last one being tg3 which is the one that was typically loaded last on my old gentoo install. However, after this I get this message: ERROR: your real /dev is missing files required to boot (console and null).. When I was in the chroot'd environment and after I had done the 'mount --rbind /dev ' command, I checked and there appeared to be a console file there. This is just and fyi Anyway, I did a google search and this was one of the responses: Some stage3 archives lack few items (like /dev/console and /dev/null) necessary for boot. To fix your installation, you need to: - mount your gentoo root device in read/write mode (for example to /mnt/gentoo) - create missing pseudo-files (something like the following): mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/console c 5 1 mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/null c 1 3 - unmount your gentoo root device or execute sync command - reboot Since I am a chicken-shit, I am deferring to the more knowledgeable people on this list and asking, is this a valid fix or is there a better one. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Colleen
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one. I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was careful that I didn't miss anything and I couldn't boot, the 3rd time I rechecked everything and the same issue arose. I am able to get my boot menu, the drivers appear to load - the last one being tg3 which is the one that was typically loaded last on my old gentoo install. However, after this I get this message: ERROR: your real /dev is missing files required to boot (console and null).. When I was in the chroot'd environment and after I had done the 'mount --rbind /dev ' command, I checked and there appeared to be a console file there. This is just and fyi Anyway, I did a google search and this was one of the responses: Some stage3 archives lack few items (like /dev/console and /dev/null) necessary for boot. To fix your installation, you need to: - mount your gentoo root device in read/write mode (for example to /mnt/gentoo) - create missing pseudo-files (something like the following): mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/console c 5 1 mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/null c 1 3 - unmount your gentoo root device or execute sync command - reboot Since I am a chicken-shit, I am deferring to the more knowledgeable people on this list and asking, is this a valid fix or is there a better one. Google is correct, just do it. All you are doing is making files somewhere that have special characteristics (i.e. you are not unleashing Armageddon or looking Medusa in the eye) But you looked in the wrong place. null and console must be in /dev on the root partition *before* mounting /dev, you looked after. The reason it must be there before is that null and console are needed very early in the boot process at a point before udev runs. After udev runs it is no longer relevant as udev will provide those nodes. I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did. What does b.g.o. say? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
On Sunday 29 May 2011 21:57:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one. I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was careful that I didn't miss anything and I couldn't boot, the 3rd time I rechecked everything and the same issue arose. I am able to get my boot menu, the drivers appear to load - the last one being tg3 which is the one that was typically loaded last on my old gentoo install. However, after this I get this message: ERROR: your real /dev is missing files required to boot (console and null).. When I was in the chroot'd environment and after I had done the 'mount --rbind /dev ' command, I checked and there appeared to be a console file there. This is just and fyi Anyway, I did a google search and this was one of the responses: Some stage3 archives lack few items (like /dev/console and /dev/null) necessary for boot. To fix your installation, you need to: - mount your gentoo root device in read/write mode (for example to /mnt/gentoo) - create missing pseudo-files (something like the following): mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/console c 5 1 mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/null c 1 3 - unmount your gentoo root device or execute sync command - reboot Since I am a chicken-shit, I am deferring to the more knowledgeable people on this list and asking, is this a valid fix or is there a better one. Google is correct, just do it. All you are doing is making files somewhere that have special characteristics (i.e. you are not unleashing Armageddon or looking Medusa in the eye) But you looked in the wrong place. null and console must be in /dev on the root partition *before* mounting /dev, you looked after. The reason it must be there before is that null and console are needed very early in the boot process at a point before udev runs. After udev runs it is no longer relevant as udev will provide those nodes. I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did. What does b.g.o. say? I'm sure that I've come across the same problem some time in the distant past and had to create these two nodes manually. However, it should be easy to prove if this is a bug or not - look in the stage3 tar file for /dev/console and /dev/null? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did. What does b.g.o. say? I'm sure that I've come across the same problem some time in the distant past and had to create these two nodes manually. However, it should be easy to prove if this is a bug or not - look in the stage3 tar file for /dev/console and /dev/null? True enough recent stage 3 tarballs for amd64 on my mirror are either faulty or do not contain /dev/console. May 20 and 26 are faulty April 28 is OK Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What stage 3 did you download and use? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:56 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: I wonder if you haven't just tripped over a bug in baselayout or recent stage3's. I just did a new install here but used an old stage3 that was still baselayout-1. I did not run into the issues you did. What does b.g.o. say? I'm sure that I've come across the same problem some time in the distant past and had to create these two nodes manually. However, it should be easy to prove if this is a bug or not - look in the stage3 tar file for /dev/console and /dev/null? True enough recent stage 3 tarballs for amd64 on my mirror are either faulty or do not contain /dev/console. May 20 and 26 are faulty April 28 is OK Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What stage 3 did you download and use? Actually, I used the most recent one - I think May 26th, However, my first install (that I screwed up on was the May 25th one, but I got the same message. Don't know if it makes a difference, but I used a tarball for x86. Think I'll try the fix that I found on google first before attempting to find a stage 3 tarball that is not faulty. BTW, I can't recall from previous installs when I'm supposed to do this, but I thought that baselayout got emerged somewhere during the install prior to rebooting. There was no place in the handbook that mentioned installing baselayout .. and yes, I did read the news item about baselayout2 and openrc migration. Regards, Colleen -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:09 on Monday 30 May 2011, Colleen Beamer did opine thusly: Colleen, you should follow the tip you found on Google to fix this. What stage 3 did you download and use? Actually, I used the most recent one - I think May 26th, However, my first install (that I screwed up on was the May 25th one, but I got the same message. Don't know if it makes a difference, but I used a tarball for x86. I'm not sure how the stages are built. it might be a hand-crafted list of stuffs, or maybe it's a script that builds the (mostly) same thing for each arch. I reckon the latter, in which case x86 and amd64 will probably give similar results. Think I'll try the fix that I found on google first before attempting to find a stage 3 tarball that is not faulty. The google fix will work. Really, trust me, I'm a sysadmin :-) It's just a missing file that the install process should have made. You simply need to make it manually. BTW, I can't recall from previous installs when I'm supposed to do this, but I thought that baselayout got emerged somewhere during the install prior to rebooting. There was no place in the handbook that mentioned installing baselayout .. and yes, I did read the news item about baselayout2 and openrc migration. The initial stage contains baselayout already, it's one of those things that is absolutely needed for a gentoo system to even exist at all. All a stage really is, is a large archive of an actual install with all it's various bits - files, dirs, and the matching entries in portage's database of things installed. OK, it's not really built like that but the analogy will suffice. The end result is the same and portage cannot tell the difference between baselayout coming out of the stage and you installing it yourself. The only time you install baselayout during an install is when you update world and there's a newer baselayout available than the one in the stage. That's true for almost every package in portage (except kernel sources, those are special) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..
Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas? Thanks!! Ian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..
Ian K ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Does the arch of the stage tarball you installed match the arch of the processor? cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..
Have you untared your stage file already? Have you mounted all the partitions? Give us some more info so we can help you 2005/9/1, Ian K [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas? Thanks!! Ian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..
I get that when I boot from a 32-bit boot disk and try to chroot into a 64-bit environmentor vice versa On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:06, Ian K wrote: Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas? Thanks!! Ian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..
My guess this is normal, since you need either: amd64 install disk or ia64 install disk: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xmlOn 9/1/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I get that when I boot from a 32-bit boot disk and try to chroot into a 64-bit environmentor vice versaOn Thursday 01 September 2005 19:06, Ian K wrote: Hi there, When I run chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, I get: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error Any ideas? Thanks!! Ian __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca--John JoletYour On-Demand IT Department512-762-0729www.jolet.net[EMAIL PROTECTED]-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- - Mark Shields
Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue, I need a solution quickly..
On Thursday 01 September 2005 21:52, Mark Shields wrote: My guess this is normal, since you need either: amd64 install disk or ia64 install disk: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml yes, it is...but I was saying that is the message I get when, say I boot my x86_64-built box with the rescue cd for partimage purposes and try to chroot in there. He seems to have done something similar. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
