From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3458F138878 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A6ED21C008; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.73]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92AFCE0486 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:26:07 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.187]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0MHQ00EJJNFIHC50@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:06 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,602,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="121503485" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-2.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:06 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id r158Q5ON025699 for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE8124AA for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:06 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cloning problem To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1359993189.17544.0@numa-i> <20130204215244.10e25b5c@digimed.co.uk> In-reply-to: <20130204215244.10e25b5c@digimed.co.uk> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.91-5-g8b4f251 Message-id: <1360052766.19903.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: e43670b0-afbf-4542-86d5-c4602f76eb37 X-Archives-Hash: 590bc664535f72f71573ba9f6d15c3d0 On 02/04/2013 10:52:44 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:53:09 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > On the very first boot the cloned system fails to mount all file > systems > > even /dev/pts which is a bit problematic when doing all this from > > remote. > > > > I get PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 > > > > Luckily I still can use the console on the remote system although I > > don't > > get a prompt. > > > Did you copy /dev/null and /dev/console to the new machine. These > need to > exist on the root partition as they are needed before udev starts. > Thanks Neil, what do you mean by copy? When cloning, I transfer a tarball of the root and usr partition. Doesn't that suffice? The only thing which comes to my mind now is that the tarball was created from a live root partition. Helmut.