On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:13:15PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > This is a very different situation. Windows asks you to reboot after > any silly change to the registry. This change affects how your > hardware interfaces to the kernel. I'd want to know if my system > could bootstrap correctly since that is precisely the time when a > static device creation script is needed.
How userspace interfaces with the hardware, surely, but the point still stands. AFAIK, if you have an open device node you can't umount /dev. Running without udev would presumeably mean not having the tmpfs partition on /dev, so your setup would be different after a reboot. Changing to the new setup (static devices in /dev, without tmpfs) would require a reboot. Anyway, if we told people how to do it before they rebooted the first time (to start using their shiny new kernel), there wouldn't really be an issue. Run MAKEDEV while in the chroot and rm the symlink to the dev startup script, and you're done. Of course, people should be aware that hotplugging doesn't work if you don't run udevd... Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk Internal: 30741, external: 0870 2760741
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