Hi After a lot of updates without rebooting (I`ve been keeping my computer on during several weeks), now it can`t boot anymore. Thanks to the LiveDVD I`m able to try somethings, including a "emerge --sync" and a "emerge -vuDN world", followed up by a "etc-update" and a "revdep-rebuild" - nothing strange and no results.
The error message is like this (I had to copy it by hand, sorry for any typo): *Press I to enter interactive mod * Mounting proc at /proc ... [ok] *** Skipping mount of /sys as /sys/kernel exists ** *** Mounting /dev ... [ok] ** ***** Starting udevd ... [ok] ** ** ***** Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ok] ** ** ***** Assuming udev failed somewhere, as /dev/zero does not exist ** ** ***** Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... [ok] ** ** ***** Caching service dependencies ... ** [ok]** Can't open /dev/fb0 or /dev/fb/0 failed to configure resolution and icon positioning Failed to load theme 'livecd-2007.0' ** ***** Checking root filesystem ... Failed to open the device '/dev/sda9': No such file or directory ** ***** Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): ** ** ** *Giving root password and listing the contents of the '/dev' directory, there are very few entries, none for my disk partitions, for example. I`ve already re-emerged udev, baselayout, and even built a new kernel - currently using 2.6.27-r7 and tried 2.6.30-r8 (I guess there`s nothing to do with the kernel, but I've built it just in case) Most probably I missed some messages during the ebuilds of the updates I've been applying. Any ideas on where to look for? Thanks a lot! Francisco -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
