On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:46:47PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:59:58 +0000 > > Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Confused. Suggestions welcome. > > > > I've never had this problem, so I can't think what could be the cause. > > What I would suggest is that you compile your kernel with > > > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > > > > Then the kernel will mount a tmpfs on /dev and populate it with all the > > devices it can before udev is run. It will at least give you all your > > disk partitions. I can boot to the command prompt and mount all my > > partitions without running udev at all. Xorg won't start without udev > > but the system is quite usable other than that. > > > Thanks, I'll give that a try. > Thanks, that is working, both for 3.0.4 and for 2.6.32.43. Interestingly, udev claims to start on both kernels. I'll see if I agree after I've tried to use an external usb drive for backups!
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