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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

Eric Sandall wrote:

> Andrew said:
>  
>
> > > I was under the impression that mount[.sh] would start devfsd for me.
> > > All
> > > my other devices work fine under /dev (with /devices -> /dev).
> > >
> > > Perhaps I have 'devfsd=nomount' in my lilo.conf, but I thought I'd
> > > removed
> > > that.
> > >      
> > this may be a silly question, but is
> > is devfsd installed?
> > It was supposed to be an optional_depends
> >
> > I left the code in mount[.sh] as [ -x /sbin/devfsd ] && /sbin/devfsd
> > $DEVICES
> >    
>
> I do have devfsd installed, but I forgot to comment out the
> 'append="devfs=nomount"', could that be the culprit?  ;)  Perhaps we
> should have the init.d spell check that as well (/etc/lilo.conf /and/
> /boot/grub/menu.lst, the former will require running 'lilo' if it's
> modified, the latter requires no such thing).
>
> -sandalle
>
>  
I believe the devfs=nomount tells the kernel not to mount the devfs at 
boot(mounting can be set up in the kernel).
JohnC