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["Robert Helgesson" <rycee AT home.se>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 22:05:24 -0000, 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

It's only my version of the init-system that requires devfs mounted at
boot. We discussed automatically changing lilo.conf to force mounting
but opted against it. The append line may appear on several places in a
lilo.conf file (once per image= option) and changing the wrong one might
lead to bad things happening.

So you'll have to be very careful when changing to devfs. The default is
to _not_ change though. I'll add an extra "Are you really, really,
really sure you want to do this?" query :)

The really smart user will probably keep the old system (unless it's
causing problems) and get a working one the next time he installs.
Assuming the ISO will install devfs on /dev.

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