Re: How do you boot using udev

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 10/10/04


Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:50:37 +0200

Hello

Richard (<rkishore@att.net>) wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>> I'm trying to boot a Linux kernel using udev (without devfs support
>> and automatically boot of devfs disable).
>>
>> However I have no idea how to do it. How do I configure my files to
>> go about using udevfs instead of devfs?
>>
>> I had compiled the kernel without devfs support but when I tried to
>> boot the kernel I got an error message, that the initial console
>> could not be open.
>>
>> My system is an i686 P-III laptop.
>
> Alright I found a solution for the problem, I had to create
> /dev/console and /dev/null manually using the mknod command. However
> after the kernel finish booting, there isn't any other files in
> the /dev/ directory and udev doesn't seem to create any files in
> in /dev directory so I can't mount my root drive. Isn't udev was
> suppose to automatically create files in the /dev directory?

Does your Kernel have sysfs support? Is sysfs mounted under /sys?

best regards
 Andreas Janssen

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