Thanks again,
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mount / -o remount, noatime,rw
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gave no protests
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etc-update
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Worked this time and I updated all
and moved to my home directory and were able to change a file there
looked at /etc/conf.d/rc but made no chages
rebooted and ended up at the same place as before
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* checking root filesystem ...
Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory
* Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for maintenance
(or Control D to continue):_
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Either this wasn't the problem or I mixed up the correction somehow. It
appears as if
the bootprocess sets the filesystem to be inaccesible?
Fredrik
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after
update
On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry for my misstake,
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uname -a
Linux(none) 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #8 Thu Feb 17 13:15:44 CET 2005 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R)
M processor 1.70 Ghz Centurion Intel GNU/Linux
etc-update
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/tmp/1162': Read only file system
Try (assuming you don't have a separate /var filesystem):
mount / -o remount,noatime,rw
etc-update
Once you have worked through that, edit /etc/conf.d/rc, which contains
many of the things that were once in /etc/rc.conf, including
RC_DEVICES.
Since you are still on 2.6.10, a udev migration is not /necessary/ to
fix your system, but I would still recommend it when you have some
time. The basic steps are going to be:
emerge udev coldplug hotplug
edit /etc/conf.d/rc to set RC_DEVICES=udev
remove any udev/devfs options from the kernel command line in
/boot/grub/grub.conf
remove /dev/.devfs if it exists
reboot
You can find a lot more information on udev here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
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