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 1QaK4i-0001aD-LR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:02:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90BA71C089; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527B81C089 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com ([209.85.215.181]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaK1V-004Nkd-JI for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:59:09 +0700 Received: by eyh5 with SMTP id 5so1273945eyh.40 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:59:03 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.14.27.200 with SMTP id e48mr1919520eea.125.1308974343509; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.189.12 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:59:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <87aad8avnj.fsf@newsguy.com> <871uyjb6xy.fsf@newsguy.com> <87wrgaakv8.fsf@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:59:03 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dc3b5ce1e4473739b89c3827196dd325 On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:54, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 06:52, walt wrote: --snippage-- >> >> 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. =C2=A0Crap, 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. =C2=A0Use mknod to create the missing device. >> > > Actually, both. > > The stage3 tarball I had (approx. 2 weeks old) has /dev/null, but it's > a *normal* file. > > Just do: > > rm -f $root/dev/{null,console} > mknod $root/dev/console c 5 1 > mknod $root/dev/null c 1 3 > > $root is either blank if you've chroot-ed into /mnt/gentoo, or > /mnt/gentoo if you haven't > > (The numbers you can see by doing `ls -l -a /dev` *before* chroot-ing) > Sorry. Forgot to stress one thing as posted in the previously-posted LQ thread (Post #8 by ToK): DO NOT mount /dev into /mnt/gentoo/dev when you do the rm+(2*mknod) above. When you `ls /mnt/gentoo/dev`, you should see only the 'null' and 'console' special character devices, and no other devices. umount it, if you have to. Cast the above spells, then re-mount. *Then* chr= oot. Rgds, --=20 Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com Google Talk:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 pepoluan Y! messenger: pepoluan MSN / Live:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 pepoluan@hotmail.com (do not send= email here) Skype:=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 pe= poluan