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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 +0000 schrieb ext Grant Edwards:
>
>> I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional
>> installation step to populate the /dev directory when using
>> recent stage3 snapshots?
>
> One usually bind-mounts /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot, like
>
> mount --bind /dev /newinstall/dev # dito for /proc, /sys
> chroot /newinstall


> If this isn't documented, you should file a bug.

That's docuemented in the "normal" install doc, but not in the
quick install doc.

But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a
reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up
with problems such as no console during startup.

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