Erik S. Bartul wrote:
> i know its silly.
>
> i installed gentoo on vmware (for those not familair, its a virtual machine,
> and im using very minimal hardware so i would get no support issues).
>
> i did the entire installation guide with seemingly no problems. i synch'd my
> ports ect, everything up until the point when i feel a reboot is nessisary.
> so i "shutdown now", then i get:
>
> init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory
>
> what would cause this? i assume something is very wrong. thanks in advance
>
>

When you get to the point that you "feel like rebooting", you're not
actually in an environment that supports rebooting. You need to actually
complete all the steps up to the instruction to reboot before you do so.

Once you're sure that you're ready to reboot, do this (unix# serves as
the prompt in this case):

unix# exit
unix# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
unix# reboot

The reason you need to exit and umount is as follows. You're not
actually in the boot environment. You're in a chrooted environment.
Therefore you have to exit. Further, you need to manually umount the
three points above because they must be umounted in a specific order or
the umount will fail.

--jm