System frozen -- can't boot [UDEV] -- urgent

666threesixes666 · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 270

id suggest going to kernel.org and getting 3.7.4 and running uname -a to verify your running the kernel your installing....

ssuominen · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:06 am Post subject:

666threesixes666 · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 270

its .config built into your kernel.... i dont use it as i keep hard records of it in /boot i have used it and did advocate it in the past, just ive found other methods to the same ends, easier to cat than zcat... copy once and be done with it.... i actually have 2 records of it /boot/config.kernel-3.6.7 for kernel-3.6.7 and /usr/src/linux-3.6.7/.config 1s generally unmounted and 1s hidden, 3rd copy is a bit excessive, but i do agree, its the .config that the kernel is running, and known working.... i do keep a stale 3.5.4 and 3.6.2 kernel & config set around too incase 3.7.4 makes my old dv9000 hardware flip out and unbootable..... lol after re reading your post i realized your directing that to the other posters on the thread.....

Duncan Mac Leod · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:48 am Post subject:

udev-197 is up and running! sorry, for bothering you with my problems.

It was my fault!!!

Building Gentoo kernels since 2004 with genkernel, but it seems that something has changed in the past.

I always used "genkernel --menuconfig all", made my config and saved the config file to my home-directory using the save-option in the kernel menu (for later use, if I have to rebuild the kernel). This has worked in the past. But if I load the config file via the kernel menu and start compiling, my loaded config file is not used. Instead it uses the .config in /usr/src/linux !

Now, kernel is compiled properly and everything works

!

Sorry, again!

666threesixes666 · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 270

so gedit $HOME/.config

ctrl + f (or alt+ f) to find "DEVTMPFS" set =y....

then

sudo cp $HOME/.config /usr/src/linux

or if your system is totally voodoo and doesnt have sudo

su -c 'cp $HOME/.config /usr/src/linux'

for future references :twisted:

aCOSwt · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:28 am Post subject:

iandoug · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:16 pm Post subject: my solution

hi

I was able to fix this problem without going the rescue-disk way ... during boot I switched to Interactive boot, did not let udev load, and let the rest proceed normally. Then I used make menuconfig to fix the option and proceeded as per normal after such editing.

cheers, Ian
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modnaruved · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 32

iandoug · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: my solution

666threesixes666 · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2011 Posts: 270

the huge post i was using a usb flash rescue disk, my usb flash rescue disk was generated using these isos (only if your 64 will they work for you)

http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-iso/

i generated documentation by hand in a note book so i could do gentoo installs with no net to see documentation (ie terminal only) and just a flash thumb drive. i still have links in terminal but its a pain to try to read the handbook as it has too many explanations and is far too verbose to do that. well i had net but was only using it to pull sources for emerge --sync and emerging goodies.

fair warning, these iso images are TERMINAL ONLY... so generate a notebook of documentation if you intend to use them. i use unetbootin if you go through the thread again you can find links to this to generate flash thumb drive rescue boot disks.

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