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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    [gentoo-desktop] Problem with /dev
From:       Marcos Hiroshi Umino <japa () mhu ! eti ! br>
Date:       2003-06-26 19:43:59
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Hello people

I'm having a very weird problem in one gentoo setup I made a few weeks
ago.

All the sudden when I boot into gentoo, it doesn't recognize any /dev/
file.

It *is* very weird because I am sure devfs is compiled into kernel to
start during boot.

As a matter of fact, I've tried many, many kernel configs, ranging even from
the config used in the bootcd.

Unfortunately, I can only enter my gentoo setup using a live CD and
chrooting to it.

The first error that appears during boot is that my /dev/hdb1 is invalid
or fsck.ext3 is not found. It is, obviously, a ext3 partition and if I
boot using the livecd and chroot to my setup, I can mount it without
problems. I even tried re-creating the partition again, but it didn't
helped.

Then I thought I might have made some mistake in recompiling the kernel.

I made a make mrproper, copied the kernel config from the livecd,
compiled kernel & modules, installed all of them and bam! nothing
changed.

Now I'm wondering it might be something related to the boot process, but
I'm unsure.

Btw, as I'm having problems with /dev, I can't access /dev/tty*, so I
can't login because the boot process can't start any terminals for me.

My english maybe is failing me and I can't explain it better... so if
anyone already went thru problems like this and could give me a little
hand I'd very glad.

I believe the last thing I had configured in it was the permissions for
/dev/usb/tts in /etc/devfs.conf (can't remember the correct filename now),
so anyone had similar problems?

Thanks in advance,

Marcos (unwilling to solve it windows-style: format and re-install)





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