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

Thought i would answer all questions here:

Eric said: You also may want to recast init.d with `cast -r -c init.d` and
make sure to say
                'n' to devfs and 'y' to udev.

Answer:    tried that and also cast udev hotplug as well

Hamish asked:    does /etc/inittab exist ?

Answer:    yes

As for John below, names in fstab and lilo are correct but they were changed
after the problem started
and system starts with root partition = /udev/hde3 whereas lilo and fstab
now have it as /dev/hde3 because
udev never gets anything in it due to the fact that my system can't get that
far :(

As to why I changed lilo and fstab to originally look in /udev, i was still
coming to grips with what udev is / was about
so thought this was new staging area for devices.

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "John T Copeland" <johnc AT neto.com>
To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev again :(


> Sounds like it can't mount the root partition.  Make sure you aren't using
the
> old devfs device names in fstab or lilo.conf.  I had that same problem
once
> when I copied my system from one partition to another and forgot to change
> fstab.
> JohnC
>
> On Wednesday 14 April 2004 10:31 am, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > John
> >
> > this appears to have cured the error from appearing but now my system
seems
> > to boot up
> > as though i always add:
> >
> >     init=/bin/bash
> >
> > to the startup.
> >
> > Any clues on where to go now? (please be nice :))
> >
> > Craig
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John T Copeland" <johnc AT neto.com>
> > To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Cc: "Craig Dyke" <grail AT westnet.com.au>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] udev again :(
> >
> > > Happened to me too.  I at first did a "cast simpleinit-msb" which
> >
> > resurrected
> >
> > > my old cast.  I went back and did a "cast -r -c simpleinit-msb" which
> >
> > fixed
> >
> > > the problem.
> > > JohnC
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 06:15 am, Craig Dyke wrote:
> > > > Hi All
> > > >
> > > > I realise I can be a bit of a chuckle head but I am stumped again.
> > > >
> > > > When booting into SM I get to the following:
> > > >
> > > > rc: Entered runlevel DEV ...
> > > >
> > > > Then a message telling me that INIT_ROOT is not set and then it
tries
> > > > to look in current directory.
> > > >
> > > > I had a similar problem recently but this was solved by doing a
mkfifo
> > > > initctl in /dev where it was looking.
> > > >
> > > > This one is looking for the following:
> > > >
> > > > /etc/init.d/runlevel/%S/dev/initctl
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone able to tell me what I have f$#@!d up this time?
> > > > I did recently run an update which put me to 0.24 of udev.
> > > >
> > > > Craig
> > > >
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