It's been awhile since I've done this, but I remember needing to emerge
coldplug as well as hotplug for the change.

HTH!  GL!

R2

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Zander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gentoo-server] Problems switching to udev and 2.6.x kernel


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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