From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francis Barton Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 03:28:00 +0000 Subject: Re: little udev problem - loop devices instead of hda devices! Message-Id: <1076815679.6858.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: References: <1076601040.402ba0d05eb01@webmail.fish.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1076601040.402ba0d05eb01@webmail.fish.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel