After doing a fresh installation of Gentoo according to handbook(stage3 file of 1 of June, don't remember exact mirror) the system can't boot. It halts after kernel load before OpenRC because /dev/console is not present Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a clean install of Gentoo from a recent stage3 on amd64 2. Follow handbook until you try to boot a new system Actual Results: Boot process stops right after loading the kernel. No keys work, no error messages fly up. Expected Results: OpenRC should start and display its version I was investigating at the problem and found following: 1) I am not the only one with the problem. People complain on forums, all for amd64 arch. 2) After creating /dev/console with mknod everything works fine. 3) To fix it, something in stage3 must provide it when unpacking the system.
Fix info: http://dev.gentoo.org/~a3li/openrc.txt *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 368597 ***
