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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:13 AM

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

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:14 AM

Captains log; stardate Saturday 17 January 2004 07:04 pm, Lieutenant Erik S. Bartul reported
that.......

> 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

Whats the point that you feel a reboot is neccisary? Did you complete the install all the way
through the guide to where it TELLS you to reboot? if not then thats likely the issue, as you
didn't actually finish the install........
--
Shan Destromp
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Sent: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 @ 19.06.46 EST
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OS: GNU/Linux 2.4.22-gentoo-r4
Processor: AuthenticAMD i686

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:15 AM

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

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 06:15 AM

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:32:24 -0500, J.M. Muller wrote:

> 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.

M$ brainwashing perhaps?

--
-Joseph-
The easiest way to get over on a people is to make them believe that something
that threatens -YOUR- plans is really just a sneaky way for your enemy to steal
something from them. Now they will fight tooth & nail for you, and be no wiser.

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