Re: udev and devfs - The final word

From: Martin Schlemmer
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 17:08:17 EST


On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:53, walt wrote:
> Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 00:17, walt wrote:
>
> >> ...I have not been able to get udev working yet...
>
> > Hmm, It works fine here? I was under the impression that
> > it should _just_work_ if you have latest everything unstable...
>
> Yes! I want to confirm that it DOES 'just work' with this one
> little thingy I missed:
>
> I needed to add TWO boot flags because of the way I have my
> kernel configured: 'nodevfs' AND 'devfs=nomount'.
>
> Without the 'devfs=nomount' flag the kernel was starting devfsd
> anyway, which keeps udev from working, apparently.
>

Hmm, right, that will do it.

Perhaps I could change this to display a warning if udev is present,
but devfs is mounted over /dev ...


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Martin Schlemmer

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