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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:34, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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).

likely no static /dev entries, ISO's from 0.7.X to 0.9.1 had no /dev 
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