JimD wrote:
OK, something weird is going on with a new install I just did. I might
have hosed /dev. I though udev takes card of /dev?
When I boot the new install, I get a kernel panic about the root= line
in my grub.conf. So from the grub boot menu I press c and entered:
root (hd0,0)
Filesytem type is reiserfs...
kernel /boot/kern[TAB] (grub auto-completes) root=/dev[TAB]
Error 11: Unrecongnized device string.
Did I break something or forget something?
I booted into the gentoo install CD and mounted /dev/sda1 and /dev on my
disk is empty. I started to mknod some devices, however that could take
all night. Besides, I thought udev handles that? Or do I need a base
set of device files for the kernel until udev kicks in?
Jim
A truly empty /dev is a bad thing. /dev needs to contain AT LEAST
/dev/null and /dev/console in order for the kernel and baselayout to do
their thing until udev kicks in. Those two files are all my /dev has,
and it works fine.
HTH.
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