From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:17:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311592678.4623.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=wYCGVQ9jm_dqyLLNWg4eHAWNyZ+8mJZzdXQv0gWVF0rwEXQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday, July 25 at 21:04 (+1000), Adam Carter said:
> > No message about init, just no more console messages. I'll try the
> > kernel line. Thanks.
>
> Ok. i ran init from the shell, and it reported /dev/initctl no such
> device or directory.
>
> I hadnt copied the contents of /dev across - i thought it was created
> automagically?
>
> Anyway, its copied now and I have booted successfully from the sdb.
There is always (well usually)* an initial /dev created in root. This is needed
for before udev kicks in. You should always copy that (and make sure it's /dev on
the root fs, not the udev /dev that gets mounted over it.
* This was the cause of a bug in the stage3 tarballs a few weeks back, where some /dev
entries did not exist in the tarball and the result was that people were able to
successfully install Gentoo, but were not able to successfully boot into the
installation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-25 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 23:49 [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init Adam Carter
2011-07-24 20:08 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-24 20:11 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-07-24 23:29 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-25 7:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-07-25 10:25 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-25 11:04 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-25 11:17 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2011-07-25 10:20 ` Albert Hopkins
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