On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > >> Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. > >> > >> *My* suggested solution: > >> > >> Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is > >> using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot > >> what exactly). > > > > good god no, please, anything but genkernel. > > > > That thing is an attempt to emulate binary distros which require an > > initramfs to work properly (for any sane definition of "work") as the > > person building the installer has no idea what hardware the user will > > have. In Gentoo the user knows exactly what they have so there's no > > need for a gigantic hardware-detecting workaround at boot time. > > > >> This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. > >> > >> (To the herd of Gentoo graybeards, feel free to CMIIW) > > > > Or wait a few days for vapier's (posting under his other name of > > spanky) sane advice to be implemented. His proposal is the sole voice > > of reason in that bug thread.... > > True. But I was having problem installing 2 servers on top of XenServer. > > So I cheated and ran 'genkernel initramfs' exactly once. At least I > got myself a booting system. :-) > > When SpanKY's makedev gets stabilized and pushed to baselayout, I'll > then happily ditch the genkernel cheat for my next VMs :-)
Are you sure that manually creating /dev/console and /dev/null isn't all that is required? The rest of the devices will be created by udev when it runs at boot time. -- Regards, Mick
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