From: rich turner <rich@storix.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: start_udev
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:19:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103073547.4055.20.camel@rich> (raw)
i am trying to understand exactly what start_udev does.
running fc3 with / on lvm. the initrd created by fc3 works fine and
i realize using fc3's mkinitrd would solve the problem but i want to
understand what is happending.
i have created my own initrd that basically creates the root filesystem
device and exits to allow the kernel to mount the / filesystem. i do not
mount /dev in the initrd or start_udev in the initrd. this all works
fine.
when the initrd exits it executes init (rc.sysinit). everything is fine
until it comes to a line in rc.sysinit to start_udev. then i lose the
devices /dev/vg0/rootlv and checking the root filesystem fails because
there is no device by that name. i still have /dev/dm-255 but my
_real_device_names_ are gone. i could change /etc/fstab to use
/dev/dm-255 but i prefer to use _real_names_
i see that one of the things that start_udev does is mount a tmpfs on
/dev.
does start_udev mount /dev if it already is not mounted?
what is strange is that with the initrd created by fc3 (which does mount
and start udev in the initrd), after running start_udev the
_real_device_names_ for my logical volumes are still there.
does start_udev populate the new /dev with old entries found in the /dev
populated by the initrd?
thanks in advance for any help
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next reply other threads:[~2004-12-15 1:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-15 1:19 rich turner [this message]
2004-12-15 3:24 ` start_udev Greg KH
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2004-09-23 17:39 start_udev Russell Coker
2004-09-23 21:07 ` start_udev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-24 15:33 ` start_udev Russell Coker
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