Hi, I've just done a LFS 6.0 stable installation. There were no apparent errors. However, when I reboot and start the LFS system, it doesn't find my swap and home partitions!

swapon: cannot stat /dev/hda2 : no such file or directory
mount: special device /dev/hda3 does not exist
[....]
Setting lfs as hostname <hangs here>

My partitioning scheme:
hda1 vfat /windows
hda2 swap swap
hda3 reiserfs /home
hda5 reiserfs /suse (my host)
hda6 reiserfs /

My fstab:
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

My SUSE fstab, which works in SUSE:
/dev/hda5 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/lfs auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 0 0
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/samsungcdr subfs user,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder11 /media/hpdvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Grub:
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/lfskernel root=/dev/hda6

So I logged back into SUSE, chrooted and looked in LFS's /dev folder. There was nothing except for /dev/null and /dev/console. So I mknod'ed hda1-6. Mounting under the chrooted environment works fine now and is automatic.

However, it still doesn't work under the real LFS system.

I've tried the option devfs=nomount and it does nothing. I don't remember enabling devfs in the kernel. I certainly do have udev programs installed. My IDE drivers are not modules, and I made sure to compile the reiserfs drivers into the kernel (not as modules). What could I be doing wrong?

Where exactly in the kernel make menuconfig is the devfs/udev enable/disable option? I might not have disabled devfs properly. However, I don't seem to have /dev/tty/ et al on the / partition and wonder if devfs is actually the problem here.

Also, LFS *does* detect my / (/dev/hda6) partition automatically. The terminal spits out the normal messages: that the system found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal, using ordered data mode, etc. But it does not detect my /home partition, which is also reiser.

Help appreciated.

sounds like devfs didnt compile right or isnt started right. /dev should be full of block devices including tty* and hd*

So I should reinstall udev? How do I populate the /dev folder again?

/dev is initially built during the install of the OS after that the /dev is mounted during the init with mount devfs

So I think you should reinstall it and make sure you reformat the partitions to make sure nothing is left from the old.

That may help. Udev creates the nodes the kernel needs in /dev automatically during the boot process. Are you sure you compiled support for reiserfs into your kernel? And did you do the sed on the kernel source before you compiled it?