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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 16:37, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > 
> > 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).
>  
> You don't need initrd, nothing my scripts to requires it, actually i
> haven't used an initrd since testing bootsplash stuff with 2.4 several
> months ago.

Guess it depends on how far this has gotten implemented...  (From the
udev FAQ.)

Q: How will udev handle devices found before init runs?
A: udev will be placed in initramfs and run for every device that is
found.  Work to get this implemented is still underway.


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