waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 08:16:57AM -0500, Dale wrote >> k...@aspodata.se wrote: >>> Dale: >>> ... >>>> Can a system even boot without udev? >>> Yes, use sys-fs/static-dev (unless you have some special boot >>> requirements). >> Well, I was talking about if udev was removed and then a reboot >> was done. I would think it would boot to a certain point then when >> whatever started and needed devices to be created in /dev, it would >> start failing. I suspect this would vary depending on the install >> as well. > You need *A* device-manager. You can use udev, eudev, static-dev, > mdev, whatever, but you need something. Mind you, some software assumes > or requires udev/eudev. >
What I was referring to was if during this switch from udev to eudev, someone rebooted without any dev manager at all. In other words, emerge -C udev and then reboot before emerging eudev or some other dev manager. I suspect that would get interesting pretty quick. Dale :-) :-)
