[gentoo-user] Re: udev: boot failure
Nilesh Govindrajan nileshgr.com> writes: > It's not a udev problem. You need to recompile your kernel with > devtmpfs support. > It can be found in device-drviers -> generic driver options. Yep, fixed now. Gotta catch up on my gentoo readings. thx, James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: boot failure
On Wednesday 12 December 2012 08:19 AM, James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > >> looking into : /mnt/gentoo/new/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev >> I cannot tell what version of udev (udev mount) >> and others (udev-init-scipts ?) were installed >> and how to roll this back. > > OK so on one of my working systems, I have > sys-fs/udev-171-r9 installed. So I should > go chroot and downgrade to udev-171-r9? > > Any other packages to roll back? > Googling did not produce anything useful. > > > James > > Downgrading udev would probably put you in a much bigger soup. Just recompile your kernel with devtmpfs support. You might want to use a recovery disk sort of thing or some live usb/cd. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
[gentoo-user] Re: udev: boot failure
James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > looking into : /mnt/gentoo/new/usr/portage/sys-fs/udev > I cannot tell what version of udev (udev mount) > and others (udev-init-scipts ?) were installed > and how to roll this back. OK so on one of my working systems, I have sys-fs/udev-171-r9 installed. So I should go chroot and downgrade to udev-171-r9? Any other packages to roll back? Googling did not produce anything useful. James