Hi, *Problem:* I have a number of hosts spread around the country running the 2.6.12 kernel. I need to upgrade to 2.6.18, which requires udev to replace devfs. Is there any way I can prepare /dev for this upgrade so the hosts will boot without human interaction/booting with CD-ROM?
*Details:* When I previously upgraded my own laptop a year or so ago, this led to the lack of certain dev-nodes upon boot (/dev/console and /dev/null, I believe), causing a kernel panic. I fixed that by booting with cd-rom and recreating the necessary nodes, as described in section 3 here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml This is of unfortunately not an option for my hosts since the majority don't run any form of LOM, and getting a tech to stand by each host, boot the Rescue-CD and do all sorts of stuff is a major hassle. *Possible solution:* I think a possible solution may be to do the following while the host is still running its old kernel: mount --bind / /mnt/point cd /mnt/point/dev mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 cd / umount /mnt/point Will/should this work? If not: Any other suggestions? Cheers, Einar S. Idsø -- [email protected] mailing list
