On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:15, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to write: > Thanks for the advice, > > To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. > I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i > make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start > with? >
d'loading and emerging a new kernel version is not "installing" a new kernel. You would have had to compile the kernel with genkernel or # make menuconfig Find your running kernel version with: $ uname -a Did you run etc-update after your updates? > Again thanks from Fredrik > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 2:50 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after > update > > > On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i > >> got > >> ---- > >> * checking root filesystem ... > >> Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory > >> * Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance > >> (or Control D to continue):_ > > > > Did you update the kernel version? Are you still using devfs? If so, > > devfs has been removed from current kernels and you need to migrate to > > udev. > > > > Also, be sure to run etc-update, and fixup your configuration files in > > /etc/conf.d. Lots of stuff moved from /etc/rc.conf to /etc/conf.d/ > > files in the last 6 months, so you may have some issue there. > > Particularly there were changes in baselayout that decide whether to > > startup devfs or udev. > > > > -Richard > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
