From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LPf5O-0002rD-9R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E06EDE03F6; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B81A4E03F6 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 628B16490F for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.331 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.331 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.201, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NBj74zlUrjOo for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3827D6454E for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LPf5A-000171-IP for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:32 +0000 Received: from 64.251.14.41 ([64.251.14.41]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:32 +0000 Received: from grante by 64.251.14.41 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots? Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1232524334.9583.13.camel@mymachine> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.251.14.41 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 430ed10e-5cbe-4d84-9fab-49832c4eeefd X-Archives-Hash: d1a281e100ea82c107222f1fb3989fae On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs 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. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! RELATIVES!! at visi.com