Bug 41277 – stage1 install with knoppix fails during bootstrap with ' cannot populate /dev '

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arvid de Jong 2004-02-11 11:15:46 UTC]

I did the bootstrap of stage1 with knoppix 3.3, and it failed with the line ' cannot populate /dev : disk full ' a bunch of times.... the harddisk certainly wasnt full. I didnt reproduce the error, but according to the forums I'm not the only one with the problem, so I'd say it's reproducible. Sorry I don't have more information than on the link. 

Reproducible: Didn't try
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athlon XP 2700+, 512MB RAM, Gigabyte 7NNXP mainboard, Club3D Radeon 7500 PCI and 
Knoppix 3.3

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-02-11 18:40:46 UTC]

dont bind /dev to the chroot

[Comment 2 Lance Albertson (RETIRED) 2004-02-18 13:05:50 UTC]

If that's true, why does it state in the handbook to do that if you're running knoppix or a livecd not using devfs?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=6

^^^ there's the link

Should the bug possibly be moved to documentation so they can look at that? What is the correct way of doing it?

[Comment 3 Dgonzalez 2004-02-20 05:18:33 UTC]

Also in forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=135552

[Comment 4 Ton Holsink 2004-02-29 04:44:57 UTC]

Created attachment 26579 [details]
Solution for: cannot write to /dev/shm

Solution for: Cannot write to /dev/shm during stage1 install with knoppix

[Comment 5 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-05 11:54:27 UTC]

are we not automatically mounting /dev/shm like we should be when the livecd boots?

[Comment 6 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-06-14 14:28:03 UTC]

is this still an issue?

[Comment 7 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-07-05 00:10:22 UTC]

Closing due to no response. Reopen if needed.