on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote
> On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:26 pm, John covici wrote:
> > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote
> > > On Thu, February 12, 2009 2:05 pm, John covici wrote:
> > > > on Thursday 02/12/2009 Joost Roeleveld(jo...@antarean.org) wrote
> > > > > On Thu, February 12, 2009 10:52 am, John covici wrote:
> > > > > > Hi. I just upgraded a gentoo system from about August 2008 to
> > > > current
> > > > > > -- including updating baselayout and openrt and now when I boot
> > I
> > > > get
> > > > > > a series of messages quite early in the boot modprobe: fatal
> > /sys is
> > > > > > not mounted. Eventually it does boot and all seems to work with
> > the
> > > > > > exception of the script for my hsfmodem, but I am curious as to
> > what
> > > > > > those message mean and if there is a way to fix them.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > Did you include sysfs support to your kernel and do you have a
> > > > directory
> > > > > '/sys'? (SYSFS)
> > > > > This can be found in: File systems / Pseudo filesystems in the
> > kernel
> > > > > configuration.
> > > > >
> > > > > The '/sys' filesystem is as important as '/proc' these days.
> > > >
> > > > The plot thickens -- by the time I log in after booting, /sys is
> > > > mounted with the correct file system. Still very strange.
> > >
> > > Hmm... so, something does solve the problem you are seeing at the
> > > beginning later on.
> > > Did you update all the configuration files (including the ones in
> > > /etc/init.d/.. )?
> > > It could be that something there is not set correctly.
> > >
> > > For now, I am assuming the issue is in the boot-sequence/runlevel.
> > >
> > > Can you check which services are in your boot-runlevel?
> > > I have:
> > > bootmisc, checkfs, checkroot, clock, consolefone, hostname, keymaps,
> > > localmount, modules, net.lo rmnologin and urandom.
> > > Think these are the default ones.
> > >
> > > Do you use an initrd? If yes, did you update this as well?
> >
> > I regenerated the initrd, but I am still using 2.6.20 kernel which I
> > will update soon, but I wonder if this is the problem -- something
> > wrong with the initrd, but regenerating did not fix it. In my boot
> > level I have
> > bootmisc@
> > consolefont@
> > device-mapper@
> > fsck@
> > hibernate-cleanup@
> > hostname@
> > hwclock@
> > keymaps@
> > localmount@
> > modules@
> > mtab@
> > net.lo@
> > procfs@
> > root@
> > swap@
> > sysctl@
> > termencoding@
> > urandom@
> > in my sysinit I have
> > devfs@
> > dmesg@
> > udev@
>
> Do you have "device-mapper" in your boot-level?
> In that case, you might want to check which init-script mounts the '/sys'
> filesystem as this script requires the /sys filesystem to be mounted.
>
> May I ask why you have this added as I don't use it with my LVM drives.
>
I don't really need it, but it was auto added by the ebuild.
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John Covici
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