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 1QlIzx-0006d6-Mc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:06:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA42821C348; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:06:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320E621C166 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so3547070vws.40 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:04:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rlhzUkZJPLlYpCxa/cMSbyTiQ/DFC8AvmiTEJ4aWLII=; b=gBadJX95dUYu1Oo/UvAoXINVjkt0onbJ7buQeXlF7dpGss5Gs+Oe1qL+HVOLb7uWcp g4a0CTsz4p7CX4j97kk+sjDE9xkp8busJ7XxBM4rI10CZkglYSP+uuEq/Tb8qqdB8oqY ii+2a69Aqux5J1hAmeoRZs6WAe4PbYbRgadjs= 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 10.52.95.141 with SMTP id dk13mr3764324vdb.265.1311591850630; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.181.5 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:04:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20110725085708.62f566a8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:04:10 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init From: Adam Carter To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2d36b769006bfdcfd0b3d2201935836a > 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. Thanks Neil and Albert!