[gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-01-21, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:

> I noticed the same thing in the install I did a few days ago.
> Later in that install grub failed to install and after
> rebooting, my /dev directory was missing just about everything.
>
> Here's the /dev directory in the chroot'ed environment I got
> using stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2:
>
>   livecd linux # ls -l /dev 
>   total 12
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Jan 20 21:30 MAKEDEV -> ../sbin/MAKEDEV
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   75 Jan 20 21:49 null
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 19:29 pts
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 13 19:29 shm

It looks like stage3-i686-20090114.tar.bz2 is broken.

The stage3 tar files for the previous two weeks are missing
(the DIGEST and CONTENTS files are on the mirrors, but no
tar.bz2).

stage3-i686-20081224.tar.bz2 seems to have the proper /dev
entries.

> I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional
> installation step to populate the /dev directory when using
> recent stage3 snapshots?

I guess the additional step is to not use a broken stage3
tarball.

-- 
Grant