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  • From: "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>
  • To: "discuss" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev and devfs
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:18:23 +0800

Arwed

It appears that Andrew's suggestion worked for me too.

I was wondering, are we eventually going to try and used just /udev with
maybe a sym link
for /dev?

Just curious to figure out way forward?

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arwed von Merkatz" <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev and devfs


> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 06:32:18PM +0200, Andrew ruskie Levstik wrote:
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> > I had the same problem with starting up so I simply did a init=/bin/bash
and mounted root rw then mkfifo /dev/initctl and restarted problem
solved...(this happened to me on 2.4.x and 2.6.x
> >
> > just my 2 cents... but for now I'm sticking with static...
>
> Ok, i'll add creation of the initctl fifo to the init.d spell.
> simpleinit really should create it when it doesn't exist though (it does
> here).
>
> > On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:35:41 +0800
> > "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > I have the original 2.4.24 from 0.9 ISO and i have
> > > two 2.6 kernels one with and one without devfs
> > >
> > > Craig
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jason Flatt" <jason AT flattfamily.com>
> > > To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:32 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev and devfs
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Saturday 27 March 2004 7:19 am, 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
> > > >
> > > > Someone on IRC (xeon-, IIRC) was having this problem also. It was
> > > determined
> > > > (although it could not be verified) that the problem was somehow
related
> > > to
> > > > compatibility problems between a 2.6 kernel and a 2.4 kernel. Do
you have
> > > > one of each?
> > > >
> > > > --
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