Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754909Ab1FRKTG (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:19:06 -0400 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:49243 "EHLO jenni2.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753095Ab1FRKTD (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:19:03 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 376 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:19:02 EDT Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:12:42 +0300 From: Timo Kokkonen To: Mark Knecht Cc: Paul Hartman , Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: New Gentoo install on Intel Z68/i7-2600K system hangs after VFS:Mounted root... Message-ID: <20110618101242.GA26761@itanic.dhcp.inet.fi> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2228 Lines: 49 On 06.17 2011 14:40:21, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> ? We ran memtest86 for an hour. Completed a couple of passes with no > >>> errors. Will run more later but no obvious memory problems seen. > >>> > >>> ? I installed 2.6.39-gentoo-r1. No change from 2.6.38-gentoo-r6. > >>> Stops at the same place. > >>> > >>> ? I tried 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 with no kernel options, and with all > >>> combinations of nousb and acpi=off. All 4 attempts quit at the same > >>> place. > >> > >> Check out this forum post, this person's bootup seems to stop in the > >> same place as yours. He was able to fix it by booting off a liveCD and > >> manually creating device nodes. Maybe it's nothing, but probably worth > >> looking at just in case it might help. > >> > >> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/gentoo-87/booting-stops-after-kernel-starts-883031/ > >> > > > > Argh!! I remember a post like that on the Gentoo list. I'll check if > > out and give it a try. > > > > Thnaks, > > Mark > > > Thanks again Paul. That was exactly the solution I needed. > > I remember this thread, or one like it, on the Gentoo-user list, but I > didn't follow the thread. I just remember that the Gentoo tarball was > not created correctly and these devices were left out. Adding them in > solved all the problem. There is also another solution for this. You can enable the devtmpfs (and also the optioin to auto mount it during boot) in order to make kernel create all necessary device nodes under the /dev automatically. Then you don't need your distro to generate initial device nodes prior starting udev. I don't know if the Gentoo devs have somehow relied on devtmpfs because the recent stage tar balls don't seem to contain the initial device nodes anymore. -Timo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/