From: Andrea Righi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun 19/03/2006 14:18
To: Bernard Li
Cc: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] 3.7.2 hotplug
Bernard Li wrote:
> I ran si_prepareclient on Fedora Core
4 to generate kernel/initrd.img
> which supports hotplug, but /dev was not
populated by udev/hotplug at all.
>
Bernard, do you mean the
"runtime" initrd or do you look inside the
initrd fs? Because at runtime
probably devfs is mounted by the kernel so
it completely overlaps the old
/dev. Try to pass devfs=nomount and it
should work.
Moreover I checked
in the trunk a new kernel config (for i386 and x86_64
archs only for now)
disabling devfs mount at boot. In this way we don't
need to specify the
devfs=nomount option...
In general we could completely remove devfs
support, but in the kernel
we're using (2.6.12.2) devfs_* calls are invoked
by devmapper, so lvm is
not able to work without that...
> We need
to fix the stock SystemImager kernel - would a simple update to
> a newer
version (eg. 2.6.14) fix this issue with hotplug?
The new kernel version
will surely fix this, because devfs has been
completely removed... anyway we
should go with the last stable release
(2.6.15.6) instead of 2.6.14, or
not?
Cheers,
-Andrea
