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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

After installing the kernel, there comes a message, that gentoo cannot
find the devfs support in the kernel.

I recompiled the kernel and it is definetely compiled into the kernel.
Also the maturity level options are set correctly.

What can I do, to disable this message?

Thomas

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

Thomas Karstensen wrote:

> After installing the kernel, there comes a message, that gentoo cannot
> find the devfs support in the kernel.
>
> I recompiled the kernel and it is definetely compiled into the kernel.
> Also the maturity level options are set correctly.
>
> What can I do, to disable this message?
>
> Thomas

don't hit me, but are you sure the kernel compiled without errors, did you
copy it to /boot and mounted /boot before doing that, and are you booting
the right kernel?

Dennis

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:18:34 +0200,
Thomas Karstensen <tommyk10151@gmx.de> wrote:
> After installing the kernel, there comes a message, that gentoo cannot
> find the devfs support in the kernel.
>
> I recompiled the kernel and it is definetely compiled into the kernel.

How about "Automatically mount at boot" ? That needs to be enabled as
well.

Faye

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
> don't hit me, but are you sure the kernel compiled without errors, did you
> copy it to /boot and mounted /boot before doing that, and are you booting
> the right kernel?

I started the system with the kernel on hda (so not from the gentoo cd),
recompiled it (to make sure I selected the devfs option), copied the
bzImage to /boot and I saw that it was the newly compiled kernel,
because I disabled PCMCIA. Do I have to mount /boot before? I think this
was already mounted.

Thomas

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

Thomas Karstensen wrote:

> Dennis Nienhüser wrote:
>> don't hit me, but are you sure the kernel compiled without errors, did
>> you copy it to /boot and mounted /boot before doing that, and are you
>> booting the right kernel?
>
> I started the system with the kernel on hda (so not from the gentoo cd),
> recompiled it (to make sure I selected the devfs option), copied the
> bzImage to /boot and I saw that it was the newly compiled kernel,
> because I disabled PCMCIA. Do I have to mount /boot before? I think this
> was already mounted.
>
> Thomas

make sure /boot is not mounted and have a look at

$ ls /boot

if you'll find your kernel there, you didn't mount /boot before copying ;-)

Dennis

#6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

* Faye Pearson wrote:
> >How about "Automatically mount at boot" ? That needs to be enabled as
> >well.

* Thomas Karstensen <tommyk10151@gmx.de>
> Ok, I will check that.

CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y

If CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT has not been compiled in, then you can enable
devfs by passing 'devfs=mount' as boot parameter to the kernel.

--
Erland Nylend

#7 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

Thanks everybody, it works now.

I had to recompile the kernel with "mount at boot" and I also forgot to
mount /boot when I copied the bzImage.

So now it works! And I am proud to have sucessfully compiled a kernel as
a linux newbie ;-)

Thomas

#8 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 04:53 AM

Thomas Karstensen wrote:

> After installing the kernel, there comes a message, that gentoo cannot
> find the devfs support in the kernel.
>
> I recompiled the kernel and it is definetely compiled into the kernel.
> Also the maturity level options are set correctly.
>
> What can I do, to disable this message?
>
> Thomas
Did activate the "Mount at boot" option ?
Markus

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