From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: little udev problem - loop devices instead of hda devices!
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:32:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213013234.GG5351@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1076601040.402ba0d05eb01@webmail.fish.co.uk>
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:50:40PM +0000, fbarton@fish.co.uk wrote:
> I'm not posting this from the affected machine, so apologies if any vital
> information is missing.
>
> I am running Fedora Core 1 and I recently compiled kernel 2.6.2 as an upgrade.
> I was intrigued to see that devfs, which I had previously found useful, was
> labelled OBSOLETE and so I decided to see what udev was all about.
>
> Reading Greg's FAQ etc I can see that udev is going to be great. I installed
> udev 0.16 last night and had a play with the config/rules/permissions files.
> When eventually I felt ready to reboot I took a deep breath and did it.
>
> 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?
I'd really recommend trying to get a 2.6 kernel to boot properly on your
box before worrying about udev.
After you do that, then try putting udev into your initrd. The latest
version of udev from Fedora does this I think.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 1:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-12 15:50 little udev problem - loop devices instead of hda devices! fbarton
2004-02-12 21:03 ` John L. Fjellstad
2004-02-13 1:32 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-15 3:28 ` Francis Barton
2004-02-21 17:43 ` Francis Barton
2004-02-21 17:51 ` Jon Smirl
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