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["Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>]

Ok ... I have tried to follow the instructions listed to change
to only a /dev system.

My problem is that now I am unable to login as root?
I can login as user and su to root but if I enter root at command
line login it pauses for a few seconds (never brings up option to
enter password) and the says login failed and prompt to
login comes back.

Have I done something inherently wrong?

1) I installed devfsd
2) Changed mount.sh as advised
3) altered fstab and lilo and inittab to point to /dev where applicable
4) reran lilo
5) rebooted

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hamish Greig" <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /devices to /dev


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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 00:25, The Well-Beloved Bard wrote:
> Ah - that's probably what I needed to know - I have devfs mounting at boot
> in the kernel I saw these problems with.  If I understand you correctly, I
> can enable devfs, and not have the problem I described if I just turn off
> that kernel flag?
Which kernel flag ?
It required no kernel flag for me.
I selected these two in make menuconfig
[*] /dev file system support (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*]   Automatically mount at boot
then I removed the "devfs=nomount" from /etc/lilo.conf.
Reran lilo.
Then  got devfsd to run from an init script and every thing worked fine.
kernel makes all the devices at boot and devfsd manages them.
Hamish
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