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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] update on udev on /dev status
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:34:46 -0800

Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > another update on the udev front, things are progressing nicely :)
> > Thanks to Hamish and Casey for providing me with a MAKEDEV script.
> >
> > Changes since last time:
> >
> > - the init.d spell will check the static /dev for console and null
> > devices, if they don't exist it offers to create a static dev tree,
> > defaulting to yes (this is only checked if the user chooses udev or
> > static for device management)
> > - the udev spell now installs a /etc/udev/udev.missing file that gets
> > processed by the devices init script to create the devices udev
> > doesn't know about, the file is commented and currently contains only
> > the ppp device, if anyone finds more missing devices they can be added
> > easily.
> >
> > Still missing is securetty and fstab editing, securetty is easy, fstab
> > is hard. For fstab it'll need to map devfs names like
> > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc -> /dev/hda and vice versa, same
> > for scsi. If anyone wants to take a shot at it i'll be happy to include
> > it in the init.d spell.
>
> # cast -r -c init.d simpleinit-msb udev
>
> Worked great (after I remembered to modify /etc/fstab ;))!
>
> -sandalle

Heh, may want to mention that you need initrd ("Device Drivers -> Block
Devices
-> Initial RAM disk (initrd) support") also. ;) Luckily I already had it
(trying out bootsplash, which doesn't work).

-sandalle

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