devfsd problem

[Terry Chan]

George,

The Gemini floppies started out as a 2 disk rescue/mini Lunar based distro.

With the next version of Gemini, it will have devfs and devfsd installed already.
That part works right now on my set of Gemini disks.  I've also installed
rsync and I'm writing a network install program using Gemini, rsync and the
Lunar iso (next iso will also have rsync installed).  The next Gemini also has
limited ethernet support.

But for your current problem, I think you need to check the symlinks in
/etc/rcS.d/ and make sure you have a S10mount which points to /etc/init.d/mount.

/etc/init.d/rcS runs all the scripts in /etc/rcS.d.  Mount should be run as
part of running /etc/init.d/rcS, which would then start devfsd for you too.

The changes to /etc/inittab are normally not necessary as devfsd would create
the symlinks from oldnames (tty1, tty2, etc. to vc/1, vc/2, etc.).

If you've copied the filesystems from an existing, working, Lunar box to these
new boxes (low ram, no cdrom), then I don't really understand why you can't
get your new boxes to boot correctly.  Some more details on the problems
you are having and what you are really trying to do would help us debug your
problem.

Terry Chan
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:55:21AM +0000, George Mochrie wrote:
> hi
> 
> I have a couple of boxes which are low on ram and have no cdrom, as you can 
> imagine i don't really want to build lunar on them but i do want to run lunar 
> on them. 
> 
> Using the slackware boot floppies and nfs i copied the filesystems from a 
> (hardware compatible) box using cp -a onto a freshly formatted partition. 
> Then i used the gemini floppies to chroot and run lilo. there were a couple 
> of problems i have since fixed but there is a big one i haven't. devfs 
> doesn't mount on boot and devfds doesn't run on boot. /etc/init.d/devfs start 
> doesn't work (restart does) but there is a note saying it's started from the 
> mount script.
> 
> i have the box booting now by passing devfs=mount to the kernel at the lilo 
> prompt and i changed the tty* in /etc/inittab to vc/* (shouldn't it be like 
> that by default?), but there's obviously something wrong here.
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated
> -- 
> George Mochrie
> aka Drasil
> ICQ# 84423409
>