[gentoo-user] WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

walt <w41ter@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, it's a trivial fix (everything's trivial if you know how to do it :)
>
> The /dev directory (before udev starts) is missing the /dev/console
> device -- or maybe it's the /dev/null device.  Crap, I can't recall
> just now but I fixed the problem a week or two ago by using mknod to
> create the missing device (I think it was /dev/console).
>
> Just chroot into your fresh vm and see what's missing from the /dev
> directory.  Use mknod to create the missing device.

/dev/console and /dev/null are there.

Not sure how to tell what is missing if anything... comparing to my
running desktop there are herds of devs missing....

But now that I tried booting, I think I'm missing some kind of driver
from the kernel build... boot is  not able to find my root on sda3.
And has a kernel panic.

I remember having a heck of a time about scuzy drivers last time too.
A couple years ago

I didn't think to get the right wording before rebooting into
SystemRescueCD and am now chrooted into the vm again.

I cannot remember what scsi kernel items to set.
I don't think it buslogic .. I did go back and rebuild that into the
kernel... but still no go.

and still not sure about devs missing either.

When building the kernel:
I took the config.gz off the minimal install iso as a template for my
kernel build.  Then turned off some of the more obvious unnecessary
gunk.  I either turned off something that needs to be on, or just
missing a module that I'm not finding.

Since the hdd is registering as sda rather than hda... I think that
may be what needs something scsi related to be built into the kernel
or as module.