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["Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>]

Arwed

Error I get is:

init: error opening fifo
rc: Booting to runlevel default...
INIT_ROOT environment variable not set, using current directory!
Error opening //dev/initctl: No such file or directory

It stops hear nad the only action I seem to be able to take is to press
ctrl-alt-delete
and then reboot process kicks off.

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arwed von Merkatz" <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
To: "discuss" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev and devfs


> 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).
>
> --
> Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux
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