Hi, I've been trying to update my gentoo system for a couple of months and couldn't seem to resolve block issues. Since it has been a couple of years or more since i did a fresh install, I decided to do one.
I followed the handbook - 1st run, I screwed up and missed a step, 2nd run, I was careful that I didn't miss anything and I couldn't boot, the 3rd time I rechecked everything and the same issue arose. I am able to get my boot menu, the drivers appear to load - the last one being tg3 which is the one that was typically loaded last on my old gentoo install. However, after this I get this message: ERROR: your real /dev is missing files required to boot (console and null).. When I was in the chroot'd environment and after I had done the 'mount --rbind /dev ....' command, I checked and there appeared to be a console file there. This is just and fyi Anyway, I did a google search and this was one of the responses: Some "stage3" archives lack few items (like /dev/console and /dev/null) necessary for boot. To fix your installation, you need to: - mount your gentoo root device in read/write mode (for example to /mnt/gentoo) - create missing pseudo-files (something like the following): mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/console c 5 1 mknod /mnt/gentoo/dev/null c 1 3 - unmount your gentoo root device or execute "sync" command - reboot Since I am a "chicken-shit", I am deferring to the more knowledgeable people on this list and asking, is this a valid fix or is there a better one. Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Colleen
