Device File System

alfalfa · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 52

Hello, I just installed Gentoo (whew!) and while the documentation was very good, I think I missed something. According to the installer guide, when congfiguring the options to be built in the kernel, "Under the "File systems" section, be sure to enable the "Device File System"" I couldn't find Device File System or DFS anywhere. Am I missing something? At startup there was a message saying that I hadn't configured for Device File System or something to that effect, but I was able to log in and start emerging. Do I need to recompile the kernel? If so, how do I do it right this time? Thanks.

rac · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:45 am Post subject:

Try this thread.
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Guest · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 1:48 pm Post subject:

Perfect, that's just what I needed, thanks. So do I have to erase everything now and start from scratch, or is there some way to recompile the kernel with that option? Thanks

delta407 · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 1:56 pm Post subject:

Try this thread.

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alfalfa · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 52

Ahh, ok. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I couldn't get rid of the message saying that I hadn't compiled support for devfs in my kernel, so I'm starting from scratch right now. We'll see how it goes...

edwinchester · Guest

OK, I'm stuck where alfalfa left off. I _know_ that I enabled the experimental options, and that I selected everything relating to devfs when using make menuconfig. I still get the message after booting something like "Gentoo requires a kernel compiled with devfs support. You didn't do that." So what did I forget?

Would I expect that the system at this point would have X, KDE or GNOME, etc? Or, to I have to emerge to get that?

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2002 7:31 pm Post subject:

Did you mount /boot before copying in your new kernel? Compare "uname -a" to the timestamp of your freshly-built kernel to make sure you're actually running the kernel you think you are.
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someguy01 · Guest

I have selected the manilla 2.4.19 kernel and selected both "promt for experimental or incomplete drivers" as well as "Devfs( experimental enabled)". My /boot was installed and configured properly. I can't figure out what the problem is. I found a second bug on top of that. I decided to run make menuconfig again and selected some more settings. Now I can not even build the kernel if I do not select "smp". I do not have any smp related features selected that rely on smp like Numa. I get a "undeclared error" even if I do not select smp at all. I did the make clean so its not old and stale modules lying around. This is weird and I am wondering if its a corrupt makefile that is causing both errors. Perhaps the devfs is not being compiled at all.

Anyway I am now downloading a later kernel and will try the -ac series to see if I get the same errors. I will repost and let you know if I do.