[email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:05:47PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> I switched mine back when eudev was new and not even stable yet. It was >> as simple as unmerge udev and emerge eudev. I don't recall even doing a >> reboot, which I rarely do here anyway. > *** WARNING *** After unmerging udev, do *NOT*, repeat *NOT*, reboot > *** UNTIL AFTER INSTALLING EUDEV *** (same applies to going the other > way). You cannot boot Gentoo without a device manager in place. Once > you've installed eudev, you'll get an urgent message to execute... > > /etc/init.d/udev --nodeps restart > > At this point, you can safely reboot, but a restart is less of a pain. >
That is a good point to make. The best way to be sure, emerge -C udev && emerge eudev and don't do anything until at least that finishes. Rebooting in the middle would be bad. Can a system even boot without udev? I would think the bootloader would get it to a certain point but then die later on. :/ Dale :-) :-)
