Re: little udev problem - loop devices instead of hda devices!

[Francis Barton <fbarton@fish.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 01:32, Greg KH wrote:
> > Overall, it seemed to handle most of my devices just fine, and I got a really 
> > slimline /udev directory with all my devices just sitting there and no crud.
> > 
> > Except... no hard drive. The computer didn't actually boot because it couldn't 
> > find a console. Using my rescue disk I went in and mknodded a /dev/console 
> > file. The next time it booted a bit further until it said "Error: canot 
> > find /dev/hda1 - no such file or device" (I paraphrase).
> 
> Are you trying to use udev to manage your /dev?

Trying to, yes! I want to persevere with it to get it to work, and
follow the development of udev. I am not a programmer myself but I find
the way programs like this one function really interesting.

I have set udev root to /dev - this worked ok but have decided to set it
back to /udev again and keep devfs hanging on.

> I'd really recommend trying to get a 2.6 kernel to boot properly on your
> box before worrying about udev.

Well it's booting ok now - using /dev rather than /udev I think - I had
to mknod /dev/console /dev/null and /dev/hda1-7 by hand to get it to
boot though. So I'm kind of back where I started but ready to try again.
I don't really have any unusual hardware so I feel it ought to work ok
for me.

> After you do that, then try putting udev into your initrd.  The latest
> version of udev from Fedora does this I think.

I will try the RPM but I would really like to know how to do this by
hand in order to understand better - with mkinitrd I presume? I Googled
for "udev initrd" and didn't find much of use to me.

> Good luck,

Thanks, I'll be back for help again I guess. I think I've got myself a
little confused about exactly how to implement udev but I'll keep trying
till it works. My instinct says it should be simple ;-)

Francis



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