On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Dmitri Vassilenko wrote:
> Justin Findlay wrote:
> | [boot kernel]
> | mounting proc at /proc
> | <hang>
>
> This happened to me when I upgraded gentoo-sources and didn't run
> genkernel, but that doesn't seem to be the case with you.
>
> Your fstab file might've been overwritten with the default (althought it
> shouldn't have been). Chroot into your installation and check?
More like I did something obviously wrong. How can proc be mounted if
there is nowhere to mount it? I am feeling quite more and more disposed
to attribute this error to some lack of user understanding. Here is my
fstab file. The proc line is unmodifed from the original fstab that ships
with gentoo. Why is gentoo wanting to mount proc if by default there is
no /proc directory, and if the default fstab file doesn't say where to
mount proc?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] justin]$ cat /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts>
<dump/pass>
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3 /mnt/fedora ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /mnt/mandrake ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /mnt/slackware ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/cdfs /mnt/cdfs cdfs noauto,owner,ro,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
{Justin reboots his box to try again the gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.1) kernel
he genkerneled about an hour ago.}
Eureka! utter gentoo bliss. By making the directory /proc and specifying
it as the procfs mount point in fstab, the gentoo system completely
booted, but complained about no devfs. Anyone know why gentoo requires
devfs?
Justin
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