Collins Brett Pat Well, it seems to be a combinationation of sys mounting /mnt/.init.d and maybe a little of /dev/hda1 /boot. /boot only had bzImage. Ist, I emerge grup and redid that & setup to mbr. That seem to help get it started. got /boot being seen first, but look at fstab & mtab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] openoffice $ more /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11 02:50 :53 azarah Exp $ # # noatime turns of atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't # needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage # efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to # switch between notail and tail freely. # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pa ss> # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts. /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 user,noatime 0 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /home reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 /swdev reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda8 /archives reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /test reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 # NOTE: The next line is critical for boot! proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will # use almost no memory if not populated with files) # Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this: none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda10 /public reiserfs user,exec 1 1 tmpfs /mnt/.init.d tmpfs noauto 0 0 [1]+ Done ./spadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] openoffice $ more /etc/mtab /dev/root / reiserfs rw 0 0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<< none /dev devfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/.init.d tmpfs rw 0 0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime 0 0 /dev/hda5 /home reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /swdev reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /opt reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /archives reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda9 /test reiserfs rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda10 /public reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] openoffice $ then I rebuilt the kernel one last time & rebooted, devfsd came up into the system. I can now hit the printer, but the printer itself seems squirelly. Last thing to do is the sound. I have thfollowing : [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # ll /dev/sound total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # grep audio /proc/pci Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 7). [EMAIL PROTECTED] rick # in /dev what do I look for as the device cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Linux Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list