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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 10:47:27PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Hopefully just a quickie.
> 
> I have adopted the udev format and am quite impressed so far :)
> 
> My query is, does udev still rely on devfs being built into kernel?
> 
> Scenario is that I got udev up and running using suggested steps from
> earlier emails.
> Once all was working well, I configured a second kernel where I removed
> devfs and this
> does not load.
> 
> Is this correct behaviour?
 
udev definitely doesn't need devfs in the kernel. What fails when
loading the new kernel, does it fail to mount the root device? If that's
the case then you'll want to check if your lilo.conf/grub.conf uses
devfs names for the root= kernel parameter. A devfs kernel can handle
both styles of device names for that parameter, a kernel without devfs
needs a classic device name (e.g. /dev/hda2).

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