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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev and devfs
  • Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:38:08 +1100

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:13, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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).

I didn't think he used them. I think he just used the grimoire spells
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