From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Diggs Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:14:53 +0000 Subject: udev & initrd ??? Message-Id: <48FF89BD.2040001@hypersurf.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi, Forgive me for the noise, but ... I am having trouble getting custom kernels to boot. One system is an old Toshiba laptop (Satellite 2775XDVD) running Fedora 9 and the other is a PowerMac G5 running YellowDog 6. Kernel is 2.6.27. I am starting to suspect the problem is udev. So ... Kevin's stupid question of the day: Does udev REQUIRE the use of an initrd root during boot to be able to find things like the console and the real root device? Doc pointers welcome. I am trying to switch the satellite from the new fangled libata driver to the old ide driver which I suspect might be faster (or smaller). kevin