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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: change from devfs to udev
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:11:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041029201112.GA29151@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41827FA5.3020900@grupopie.com>

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:36:37PM +0100, Rui Carvalho wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a small distribution based on vanilla kernel, which is using 
> devfs (checking the option on kernel config) and I want to change to udev.
> But I'm having some problems to make it successful.
> When I disable the devfs support in the kernel, the startup hangs in the 
> following line, after mounting the root (ext3 filesystem):
> 
> "Warning: unable to open an initial console"
> 
> What could it be?
> What can I do to make udev work in my distro?

Did you read the HOWTO-udev_for_dev file that's in the udev tarball?  It
contains a lot of hints about how to accomplish this.

Good luck,

greg k-h


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-29 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-29 17:36 change from devfs to udev Rui Carvalho
2004-10-29 20:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-10-29 22:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-10-30  7:48 ` Remco

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