2009/1/21 Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> > On 2009-01-21, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs....@nsn.com> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 04:04 +0000 schrieb ext Grant Edwards: > > > >> I'm a little confused. Is there supposed to be an additional > >> installation step to populate the /dev directory when using > >> recent stage3 snapshots? > > > > One usually bind-mounts /dev, /proc and /sys into the chroot, like > > > > mount --bind /dev /newinstall/dev # dito for /proc, /sys > > chroot /newinstall > > > > If this isn't documented, you should file a bug. > > That's docuemented in the "normal" install doc, but not in the > quick install doc. > > But, that doesn't really solve the problem, since after a > reboot the /dev directory will be empty again and you end up > with problems such as no console during startup. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! RELATIVES!! > at > visi.com > > > IIRC thats because /dev should be populated on startup by udev so i would check that udev is installed and working properly, if you use openrc then this could be the cause as openrc now starts udev through normal scripts i think, sometimes on upgrade from baselayout 1 they may not be automatically added to the right runlevels.
- Nick
