On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 00:58 +0200, klap2 wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using LFS 6.0/BLFS 5.1 happily for more than > half a year now, when I made a mistake. > Reading BLFS 6.1 I found a method to link my dvd drive to > /dev/dvd (it had been a problem all the time before): > > cat >> /etc/udev/rules.d/24-dvd.rules << "EOF" > # Create a /dev/dvd symlink > > KERNEL="[dvd drive]", SYMLINK="dvd" > > EOF > udevstart > > > Having done that I rebooted my system and it isn't working > anymore - the init process fails with messages: > > swapon: cannot stat /dev/sda4 > ... > mount: special device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist > > > and so on, eventually it hangs. > > My partitions are as follows: > > /dev/sda1 / > /dev/sda2 /usr > /dev/sda3 /home > /dev/sda4 swap > > No problems up to that evil day 2 days ago ... > > I browsed through the lists and found that some people had > the same problem, it seems to relate to starting udevstart > on a running system. > Some people said the cause is a /dev/.udev.tdb file which > has to be cleared, but I cannot do that. > I tried a method suggested on debian list: > > boot with 'init=/bin/sh' > #mount -o remount,rw / > #rm -f /dev/.udev.tdb > #mount -o remount,ro / > #reboot > > but nothing, same problem. > > I can chroot to my system from my backup system (clever of > me!), but I cannot find a way to solve this problem and to > be able to use my > main system again. > > Any help deeply appreciated > > Balazs may be you should use the initial sh to execute udevstart and see which devices are created (o.k. before that you have to do other things like mount /sys /dev etc ...) -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H
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