[Wlug] I am getting discouraged with Gentoo on ULTRA1

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 16 09:20:52 EDT 2007


On Sunday 15 April 2007, Eric Martin wrote:
> Did you use udev?  There's a spot about using a certain profile if
> you're using the 2.4.  Udev only works on 2.6 and up (and not on some of
> the older 2.6 kernels).  Reboot with the livecd chroot, enter the
> chrooted environment and check your kernel config for DEVFS.  Make sure
> it's compiled in (Not a module) and it's set to mount automatically at
> boot.  Also, make sure that udev isn't installed (emerge -s udev) and if
> it is uninstall it (emerge --unmerge udev).

the error he's getting is unrelated to the /dev management ... he cant even 
launch init because glibc requires a newer kernel than he has installed
-mike
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