From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Only one working partition node
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:20:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041018182054.GB23341@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041014134350.GB15012@charly>
On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 12:22:00PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:42:07PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > That needs to be there. If that doesn't happen, something is wrong.
> > Make sure you aren't booting with a command line that disables udev, or
> > enables devfs. Also make sure you don't have devfs in your kernel at
> > all.
>
> There are no special boot parameters at all.
> And i tripple checked the kernel is configured without devfs.
>
> > > But there's a udevd running.
> >
> > The kernel started that up, not the init scripts.
> >
> > > And how could there be a working device mount, allowing me
> > > to mount a partition without udev (since that kernel comes
> > > without devfs)?
> >
> > The kernel does this on it's own in the boot process.
>
> I understand the kernel mounts root by itself.
> But the one working device node is for another partition,
> what makes no sense to me at all.
>
> In what script is udev supposed to be started?
/sbin/rc
> The system gets to mount sys and proc, then complains
> it couldn't remove /dev/.devfsd.
That means that you have a kernel with devfs enabled. Please fix this,
and udev should work.
> And mount tells me /dev would be mounted as devfs.
Then again, fix your kernel.
> All this with varying kernel builds and udev versions.
I suggest reading over the various gentoo udev web pages, they should be
able to help you. Also read the gentoo forum threads.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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2004-10-14 13:43 Only one working partition node Thorsten Wilms
2004-10-16 10:22 ` Thorsten Wilms
2004-10-18 18:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
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