From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QlJBm-0008Fp-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:19:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 766DD21C35B; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:19:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A55721C343 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74BF20879 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:17:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:17:58 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to :references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=i5nD3HUHuhZ3dTJGcedREgMqj6c=; b=t6z hTf66El4iJsmyTcywF/R2QygwyfPUPBpm1OJDhn8sIJ2ZgRQz8sCkzpN9lMDUX4J Rlwyf3jptpfD/gb+idQBokJDx2ptEwWw7unif1bgUfEsmP6Y+pg40yzm28CG+bbW 45JcTfbmD2HwXNoqTpnzCRkAWLHHNcyoir40MvPk= X-Sasl-enc: gLAug3we869C22jwSTwHJPLvO4B/FnBItoeHqeaF+1hf 1311592678 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A61D84541F5 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:17:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:17:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <20110725085708.62f566a8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1311592678.4623.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 061e65438d20b936707d989dd97da308 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.