[ale] NOW what do I do?? Missing /proc

[webmaster at tinyminds.org (Mark Angeli)]

Try:

mount -o rw,remount /

That should remount / as read/write and let you make the partition.

Why it wasn't created on install is beyond me....

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 19:22, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I've painted myself into a bit of a corner on a Gentoo-running machine
> that I've just set up.
> 
> At boot, the kernel tells me that I don't have a /proc and gives me an
> option to provide a root password or hit Ctl-D for normal boot (which
> takes me straight to a kernel panic).  It tells me to remount my root
> filesystem as read-write and issue the command mkdir -p /proc.
> 
> After I provide a root password, "umount /" *appears* to work but
> clearly doesn't.  I mean, how can you do that, really, anyway?  The
> problem is that with / mounted read-only, it won't *let* me do a "mkdir
> -p /proc".
> 
> This is an old Integraph all-SCSI no-IDE machine that can't boot to a CD
> drive.  Any suggestions as to how I can get a /proc made easily?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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