Missing /proc after first reboot

Kiff · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 73

Well I finally got my 1.3b Gentoo installed (for the first time), and after a few tries I got Grub working.

Kernel booted up perfectly until I got an 'oops'

It told me that the /proc dir was missing and I got into a bash to fix it. And idd the dir wasn't there. I rebooted via the cd and tried to get the /proc from the tarball but that didn't go as expected (n00b here). So I just manually made a /proc dir.

And now my system boots normal (apart from an fstab error (my mistake I think) and the fact that I didn't know I HAD to compile devfs into the kernel)

rac · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 7:59 am Post subject:

/proc is a special kind of filesystem that is generated from the running state of your system by the kernel - it's not files that you copy around. As long as you have a /proc mount point and something like:

Kiff · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 73

that's all in there so I think I'm ok

just thought it was a serious error because when you unpack the tarball there are a number of files/dirs in the /proc

but ok... it seems to be working, so I'll leave it

delta407