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FINITE Guru
Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 7:57 pm Post subject: DEVFS kernel support? |
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I have a friend that just got gentoo working and even though he has compiled support for devfs into the kernelhe still get the error that it needs to be compiled in for gentoo. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks |
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tomte Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 122
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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checked the obviously?
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CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
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in his .config?
regards,
tom |
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proxy Apprentice
Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 260 Location: Chantilly, VA
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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most common cause of this i noticed is people forget to mount /boot before copying bzImage to it.
in gentoo unlike other distros, /boot is NOT automatically mounted during normal boot as this avoids some possible problems and is uneccesary.
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lx Veteran
Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 1012 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe its better to mount it as read-only then you'll get a message so you remember to mount /boot. This offers some protection.
Cya lX. _________________ "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.", Frank Zappa |
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FINITE Guru
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Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the suggestions. I will have to ask if he is mounting the boot partition when cp'ing the boot image over. He may not be. I know I forgot the first time. I will also have him check the .config file as well. Thanks again. |
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