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[Belxjander <Belxjander AT 202-0-42-165.paradise.net.nz>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:56, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> 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.

simplest case is to look for and warn the user to update the files in question

as for the boot time... IF /sbin/devfsd + /dev/.devfsd THEN devfs is mounted
why worry about the /etc/sysconfig/... file presence at all ?