I tried to upgrade(?) from devfs to udev(045) today and it was miserable. I followed the Gentoo Udev Guide as well as DSD's guide but no go.
I've recompiled my kernel(2.6.11) to _not_ mount /dev/ automatically at boot. (devFS is still compiled into the kernel) edited /etc/conf.d/rc RC_DEVICES="auto" RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" RC_DEVFSD_STARTUP="yes" changed my kernel (grub) line to append gentoo=nodevfs Rebooted and faced a lot of issues. The 1st would be the obvious /sbin/rc file : The Gentoo Linux system initialization scripts have detected that" your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV. Since Gentoo Linux" has been designed with these dynamic /dev managers in mind, it is" highly suggested that you build support for it into your kernel." Please read the Gentoo Handbook for more information!" I continue booting and I find that in the _worst_ case, I can't load up /dev/hda3 (root) due to a missing/invalid/non-existant symlink in /dev I tried executing udevstart and it spurt out these (bunch of) lines in /var/log/messages configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules' at line 133 applied, added symlink '%k' configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules' at line 133 applied, 'vcs3' becomes 'vcc/%n' I tried a few variants but all of them no go. I finally relented and removed udev and reverted back to my old kernel (/dev/ mounted automatically at boot) I boot into the original kernel and now I see these errors : devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/2 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/3 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a3 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/4 devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for vcc/a4 Guys... There are 2 ways to fix this. 1. Help me get udev running again. (but why do I need udev anyway??) 2. Help me get devfs running again. Right now.. I see it's only those few errors above and everything seems to be working. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:31:20 up 25 min, 5 users, load average: 1.48, 1.39, 0.87 -- [email protected] mailing list
