Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-22 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/19/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ls -l /dev/ttyS*: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS0 -> tts/0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS1 -> tts/1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS2 -> tts/2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 19 10:07 /dev/ttyS3 ->

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-19 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/18/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just one little problem left. From the boot > console: > > > > udevd-event[3787]: udev_make_node: > mknod(/dev/ttyS0, > > 020660, 4, 64) > > failed: File exists > > Hmm, odd. What do "ls -l /d

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 May 2006 13:34:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > In fact, the current handbook says: > > --- > Code Listing 2: An example /boot line for /etc/fstab > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2defaults1 2 > >Some users don't want their /boot partition to be mounted > automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 18 May 2006 21:34, Richard Fish wrote: > > It is supposed to have noauto, because /boot does not need to be mounted > > in the normal course of events. GRUB doesn't use /etc/fstab, it uses > > grub.conf to find the kernel. The only time you need to mount /boot is > > when installing a n

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is supposed to have noauto, because /boot does not need to be mounted in the normal course of events. GRUB doesn't use /etc/fstab, it uses grub.conf to find the kernel. The only time you need to mount /boot is when installing a new kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/18/06, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just one little problem left. From the boot console: udevd-event[3787]: udev_make_node: mknod(/dev/ttyS0, 020660, 4, 64) failed: File exists Hmm, odd. What do "ls -l /dev/ttyS*" and "grep ttyS /etc/udev/rules.d/*" produce? -Richard -- gent

Re: [gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 May 2006 12:43:55 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > One, somehow the /boot line in fstab got set to > noauto. How that happened have no idea. It is supposed to have noauto, because /boot does not need to be mounted in the normal course of events. GRUB doesn't use /etc/fstab, it uses g

[gentoo-user] getting somewhere -- was about a bug

2006-05-18 Thread maxim wexler
Hi all, A bunch of things came together in the mother of all screw-ups. One, somehow the /boot line in fstab got set to noauto. How that happened have no idea. Two, at some point I must have compiled a kernel after chrooting without making sure /dev/ was mounted on /boot. Then, when I copied ove