[email protected] wrote: > Dale: > ... >> Can a system even boot without udev? > Yes, use sys-fs/static-dev (unless you have some special boot > requirements).
Well, I was talking about if udev was removed and then a reboot was done. I would think it would boot to a certain point then when whatever started and needed devices to be created in /dev, it would start failing. I suspect this would vary depending on the install as well. > >> I would think the bootloader would get it to a certain point >> but then die later on. :/ > The bootloader needs to find the kernel and possible the initrd/ > initramfs if you use them. > > Then kernel needs (depending on your setup) to find the root > filesystem and then /sbin/init. > > And init needs to start up the rest of the system. > > The above have been working wery well for a long time, but if you don't > use udev and initrd et al, most (all?) distributions don't help you > anymore with it; you have to know yourself how to do it. > > Regards, > /Karl Hammar > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Aspö Data > Lilla Aspö 148 > S-742 94 Östhammar > Sweden > +46 173 140 57 > I get what you are saying and sounds about right. I figure the bootloader would load the kernel and the kernel would do most of the loading until it needed something that udev does. At that point, things start to fail. I'm not going to test this theory tho. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
