Activate DEVFS filesystem (but i've done that?)

Strukt · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 56

Question: for DEVFS you need the option " [*] /dev file system support " enabled in the kernel right?, and if i have, why does the message appear at boot that i need DEVFS enabled, when i have it compiled into the kernel, and not as a module?

nepenthe · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 317 Location: Sanford, ME

I am also having the same problem... hmm..

Strukt · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 56

Thats good (or bad)

But this someone might want to explain how to resolve this "problem" if it is a problem. Anyway its irritating to get that screen everytime it boots up...

overall the gentoo system works great.

rac · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject:

Is there any chance that when you folks were installing your new bzImage with devfs enabled into /boot that your /boot partition was not mounted at the time? What says:

nepenthe · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 317 Location: Sanford, ME

will try

Strukt · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 56

Dont know really what you mean rac, but my boot partition is always mounted according to /etc/fstab.

And i ofcourse replaced the bzImage in /boot with the new compiled one.

and when i type in this command: grep devfs /proc/filesystems , i dont get any output back.

rac · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 3:06 am Post subject:

Strukt · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 56

Works fine now!

Thanks for the help rac, the link you posted made me realize that when i was copying over the new compiled kernel it was in-fact copied over to the /boot dir with no /boot partition mounted there. So i just mounted that partition, copied over the new bzImage-file, did a reboot, and it worked fine.

Thanks again