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necron Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 Sep 2010 Posts: 113
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:00 am Post subject: cannot fix udev-mount failure |
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after managing to update my system it seems that i glossed over a warning to activate a kernel option for udev (version to be posted) to work on my system. the error message i get on trying to boot up tells me pretty explicitly that CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y, but i cannot chroot to go at the kernel configuration and editing the kernel command line to boot into single user mode or even just add "devtmpfs.mount=0". i can edit at the grub menu, but none of the changes seem to stick once i actually tell the machine to boot
trying to chroot is becoming an issue because of the fact that the gentoo minimal usb, which is currently all i have on hand as a rescue medium, won't mount my root partition (which is a jfs system if you're curious)
i am going to try making another livecd to try the chroot again, but does anyone have any idea how i could work through this without doing a full reinstall? or is there something more deceptive going on here? this issue seems like it should be a lot less complicated to fix than it's proving...
edit: the gentoo minimal usb mounted my normal boot partition with no issues...is the root partition corrupted then?
edit: udev-197 |
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necron Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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so i guess that the gentoo live dvd doesn't have jfs support either? |
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The Doctor Moderator
Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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I'll offer a shot in the dark:
You can try the system rescue CD I always have one handy. However, I find it odd that neither install media supports jfs. You may try modprobe jfs in case it is a module and it may also be a good idea to fscheck the jfs root. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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necron Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 12:20 am Post subject: |
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and like magic, the stupid thing mounted!
all i did was fsck.jfs...am i really that inept that i applied a fix without knowing it? |
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necron Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 1:55 am Post subject: |
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hello from gentoo
i don't know why the liveusb wouldn't let me mount jfs, but i just chrooted, recompiled and all is well |
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