I finally got around to switching our samba box to the 2.6.x kernel. I
followed the kernel migration guide posted on-line. Upon reboot with the
2.6.14-hardened-r3 kernel it failed because it could not find any
devices. After poking around a bit on the forum I did see posts about
altering fstab to use different device names like
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 /boot ext3
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 none swap
etc
in place of
/dev/sda2 /boot ext3
/dev/sda3 none swap
etc
Those changes allowed me to at least boot up.
I did remove devfs after installing udev. I see now the migration guide is
silent about removing devfs. Was removing it incorrect?
The server was up to date before I tried the migration. Both system and
world were updated.
Other forum postings indicated to be sure HOT_PLUGGING was enabled in the
kernel. It was. In the 2.6.14 kernels it seems to be set to Y
automatically and you can not set it to N.
in /etc/conf.d/rc RC_DEVICES="auto"
After spending most of Saturday working on this I finally reverted to
2.4.32-hardened-r2 and emerged devfs again. My "regular" device names
reappeared again.
So what's the secret to udev?
--Karl
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