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<sam_>I'm currently trying to wrangle the init steps (first just getting the basic way working, then making OpenRC work)

<sam_>I land in the single user console because it fails to fsck, ok, fine

<sam_>it complains that mtab doesn't exist, but it does, and it says (please hold as I transcribe):

<sam_>"ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab file while determining whether /usr/dev/hd0s1 is mounted", "/sbin/fsck.ext2: Permission denied while trying to open /usr/dev/hd0s1", ...

<sam_>the perms on hd0s1 are 0644

<sam_>is that right?

<youpi>no

<youpi>but it's also very surprising that you have /usr/dev instead of /dev

<youpi>which distribution is that?

<youpi>do you have a /etc/mtab?

<youpi>normally it points to /proc/mounts

<sam_>atm the layout I'm going for is typical usr-merged one (so /sbin -> /usr/ and so on), and I added in a symlink from /dev -> /usr/dev when hacking a while earlier for reasons I don't recall (can try drop that)

<sam_>porting gentoo

<sam_>yeah, I do have one (and it points there)

<youpi>and do you have /proc/mounts?

<youpi>(cool for porting gentoo !)

<youpi>so the perms on hd0s1 and friends should be 0640

<sam_>it's going pretty well! i'm excited and quite keen. my plan is to have it land properly once everything works

<youpi>is perhaps your /dev symlink not 777 ?

<sam_>re /proc/mounts: "yes", but only on 2nd attempt because it doesn't mount the proc translator on first attempt

<sam_>let me check

<gnucode>well I wasn't able to mount the usb stick.

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