AFAIK there is no possibility to disable /dev/null to work in .config, therefore I think your kernel failed to mount /dev filesystem ...
Have you got /dev directory ? What about other devices ? (e.g. /dev/hda1)
noro
Noro,
Thank you very much for responding. I was just considering wiping all the drives and starting all over again... but it seems like there must be a (fairly) easy solution to this.
I wasn't thinking I had disabled /dev/null in the kernel (.config is the kernel config file, right?). I'm thinking that devfs is screwed up somehow. I put tests in the rc script and found that /dev/null exists before the mount devfs command, but does not exist afterwards. Once the boot aborts, the system lets me log into a maintenance console. From there I find that I do have a /dev directory, but the only thing in it is .devfsd and initctl. Somehow, mounting devfs on /dev is wiping everything out.
I suppose that this isn't too hard to believe... if I understand correctly, devfs is just a script that translates the regular /dev listings into devfs style listings. But, in my case, something is broken, so mounting devfs on /dev wipes out everything that was there but doesn't replace it with the new devfs listings.
I feel like I'm really close, but I'm missing that last little bit. Any ideas?? Anyone???
thnks,
b
Ben Munat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently built my first gentoo install, but discovered that I had inadvertently left devfs support out of the kernel. So, I recompiled (gentoo-sources) with devfs support and devfs mount on boot. However, I can't boot with this new kernel; the /sbin/rc script starts throwing "/dev/null: Permission denied" errors and then the filesystems won't mount.
>
> After doing a little debugging on the rc script, I found that the "permission denied" errors are because /dev/null doesn't exist at that point in the script. I then tested and found that /dev/null exists before devfs is mounted and does not exist afterwards. So, devfs is screwing the pooch...
>
> Anyone have any idea why??? I've been struggling with this for about 24 hours... would really appreciate some help!
>
> Ben
>
> PS: I'm using LVM and resierfs, in case that matters.
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