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MdaG
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 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject: Borked my system after changing to udev[fixed!] |
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As the title suggest it's not working anymore. I followed the Gentoo udev-guide with
| Code: | # genkernel --udev --menuconfig all
# emerge udev |
Removing support in menuconfig for devfs which was a huge mistake. Now it doesn't recognise my root (hda4) and won't boot.
This is the error message:
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>> Block device /dev/hda4 is not a valid root device...
>> The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
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How do I fix this. I know I could boot up with the live-CD and reenable the option for devfs, but I'm suppose to be able to live without that, or?
I'm not good at chrooting and such either, if I have to do some of that how is it done?
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MdaG
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Nevermind that chrooting part, I managed on my own. It's working fine. But even though I've enables udev. I still can't access external devices with regular users. |
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kamagurka
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| MdaG wrote: | | Nevermind that chrooting part, I managed on my own. It's working fine. But even though I've enables udev. I still can't access external devices with regular users. |
i don't think udev is supposed to give your users access to external drives (i suppose you are talking about usb-drives and the likes), unless there is some option in the config you have to activate. just write a rule for the device so it always connects at the same node, then put it in fstab with "user" in the options. or mount the thing as root with "-o uid=$USER".
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MdaG
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Can I add uid=$USER to my fstab? |
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kamagurka
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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i think so. but with the user option, uid will be set to the user who issued the mounting command anyways.
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Trebiani
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| MdaG wrote: | | Nevermind that chrooting part, I managed on my own. It's working fine. But even though I've enables udev. I still can't access external devices with regular users. |
how did you get it working? i had no luck with "pure" udev .....
thanx in advance,
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mattc
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:42 am Post subject: How did you get it to work PLEASE |
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I have the same error.
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>> Block device /dev/hda3 is not a valid root device...
>> The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
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Please tell me how you got it to work .
Thanks in advance
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MdaG
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| Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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I assume you're talking about the chrooting part...
... if so, boot up with the live CD and do:
| Code: | # mount /dev/<root> /mnt/gentoo
# swapon /dev/<swap>
# mount /dev/<boot> /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
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and rebuild your kernel with the options you used to have.
ex.) If you used genkernel:
| Code: | | # genkernel --menuconfig --oldconfig all |
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mattc
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| Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:43 am Post subject: Thanks |
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It wasn't the chroot stuff I needed, but the fact that you need to recompile the kernel. Did that, still didn't work. Then I found the magic 2 part solution:
hotplug --> Must be started at boot level not the default level
add gentoo=nodevfs to the kernel boot line in grub / lilo
My system now works well.
 Matt |
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