On 04/15/2012 01:20 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > Dear Gentoo Users, > > I've got the situation where I need to pre-mount /usr. I was already > using dmraid and genkernel to make in initramfs so that's not a real > big deal. However, I now get the following in the console when booting: > > ------------- > /lib/udev/write_root_link_rule: line 17: udevadm: command not > found /etc/init.d/udev: line 74: udevadm: command not > found /etc/init.d/udev: line 74: udevadm: command not > found > > * Starting > udev ... /lib/udev/udevd: error while loading shared libraries: > libkmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > * start-stop-daemon: failed to start > `/lib/udev/udevd' > > * Failed to start > udev [ !! > ] > > * ERROR: udev failed to start
It sounds like that error appears after the initramfs has done its work. Have you run revdep-rebuild to make sure all your binaries are linked to existing libraries? > The udev elog also has this: > > ------- > │If you build an initramfs including udev, then > please > │ │make sure that the /usr/bin/udevadm binary gets > included, > > ------- If I am not mistaken, genkernel creates an initramfs free of anythibg udev. It makes use of mdev of busybox. Best, Sebastian
