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

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:07:45PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
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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 
 
The spells i did take care of that by creating a static /dev if it can't
find some needed static /dev files (console, null).

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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