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

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 11:19:34PM +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> 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

I don't really see how that could be caused by devfs not being in the
kernel, but i'll try it here.

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