Mark Knecht wrote: > Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18 > months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in > portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to > use? Is it automatic upon reboot? > > The machine has been updated to a new gentoo-sources. (2.6.11-gentoo-r9)
Tell it to use udev by adding "gentoo=nodevfs" to your kernel-commandline. Other way: Remove support for "/dev filesystem" (DEVFS) from your kernel. HTH, regards Felix -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list