In chapter 7, configuring the kernel, the manual suggests genkernel --udev all for genkernel users running 2.6 kernels. However, the kernel will still attempt to use devfs on bootup, causing an annoying (but benign) error in the boot status messages. The kernel isn't dumb, and seems to fall back on udev after, so it isn't a major issue. Append kernel parameters udev nodevfs to fix it. NOTE: appending just nodevfs, _without_ udev causes the kernel to not boot! (at least, for me.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use a 2.6 gentoo dev sources kernel, compile it with genkernel --udev all 2. Use the kernel parameters described in the installation guide. Actual Results: The third or forth status message during boot (the ones in green for ok, red "!!" for error) complains that devfsd can't be started; the file isn't found (which is quite right.) Expected Results: Once the bootparameters are configured correctly, everything is fine. It's not a software issue, but a documentation one. Here's my grub.conf now: timeout 5 default 0 fallback 1 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz # For booting GNU/Linux title linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 root (hd0,2) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda4 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x1024-32@75 splash=verbose udev nodevfs initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title winxp rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 # For installing GRUB into the hard disk title Install GRUB into the hard disk root (hd0,2) setup (hd0) Don't think it's relevant, but here's emerge info anyway Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 29 2005, 00:42:51)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/ " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bootsplash bzip2 bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux djbfft doc dvd ecc emacs encode fam fb fbcon font-server foomaticdb gcj gdbm gif gnome gnustep gtk gtk2 guile idea imlib ipv6 java javascript jce joystick jpeg kde layout-from-conf-file libcaca libg++ libwww mad maildir mailwrapper md5sum mikmod mime mmx mmx2 motif mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocd nodrm nomotif non-flattened nosendmail nptl nptlonly nvidia objc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic png posix profile python qt quicktime readline remote sdl sndfile source spell sse ssl svg svga symlink tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 wifi xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Thanks, guys.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87117 ***
*** Bug 93370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
