From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:11:13 +0000 Subject: Re: change from devfs to udev Message-Id: <20041029201112.GA29151@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <41827FA5.3020900@grupopie.com> In-Reply-To: <41827FA5.3020900@grupopie.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&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