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 1QaGE7-00064Q-UW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:55:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62EC71C005; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA491C005 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9462AC03F for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:53:08 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.699, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] 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 clFB3-B0EzZF for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAFB2AC001 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:53:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QaGBF-0008NO-4f for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:52:57 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-186-132.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.186.132]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:52:57 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-186-132.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:52:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:52:40 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87aad8avnj.fsf@newsguy.com> <871uyjb6xy.fsf@newsguy.com> <87wrgaakv8.fsf@newsguy.com> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-186-132.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 In-Reply-To: <87wrgaakv8.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 53f6801db25ebd664bad8dcd65bacc8b On 06/24/2011 04:08 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> As for Gentoo installs, IMHO, they are in a bit of a mess right >> now. Last weekend a friend decided to give Linux a try and I helped >> him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, >> didn't include all the required /dev stuff in the stage3 tarball which >> caused the machine to not boot. Maybe that's what you're seeing? I > > I'm at the stage right now of trying to boot from the vm harddrive. > What is missing from stage3? Maybe I can get it straightened out now > before turning the vm on its own. 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. Crap, 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. Use mknod to create the missing device.