On Tuesday 28 October 2003 17:22, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:21:50AM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > Reading > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree-Local-multi-user-HOWTO/dev_files.html > > (which is basically the howto I'm following) I get the impression > > that mount should know about it if devfs is used. It says that > > mount | grep devfs > > should report something, but for me it doesn't. Which is weird. > > It does seem like devfs is not mounted. > > Maybe it's mounted on boot, and init somehow unmounts it? The > definite answer to see what is mounted is to cat /proc/mounts. No > devfs there?
Yes, it's there! :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep devfs /proc/mounts none /dev devfs rw 0 0 > If devfs is in /proc/filesystems, Yes, it is there too. >you can perhaps add an entry in > /etc/fstab. (See your /proc entry for an example). If that still > doesn't help, you can try more advanced things, such as booting with > the additional parameter "init=/bin/sh". That will skip all of the > normal initialization, and just give you a prompt after the kernel is > ready. Your rootfilesystem will be read-only, and you'll have to > mount /proc to see what's mounted. mount -n /proc should do that > trick. If devfs is mounted at that point, the next step is to find > out why or how it's unmounted. OK. By going through /etc/rc2.d/ and run the scripts manually? > > I haven't put anything about devfs in my /etc/fstab, should I? > > You could try it. Won't hurt much since it's not working now. :) Hehe, ok! :-) But apparently, it _is_ mounted, now... At least some parts of the system thinks it is... BTW, I posted a message to the devfs mailing list too, but I don't know if it is alive, their archives are 404. Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
