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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next prev parent 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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