Re: How do you boot using udev

From: Richard (rkishore_at_att.net)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:07:17 GMT

Andreas Janssen wrote:
> 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
>

Yes, I have add the line "/bin/mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys" to the top of
my rc.sysinit file.

I can boot into my OS (thru single user mode) after the error concerning
re-mounting the root directory. From here I can see that /sys was
successful mounted, but there wasn't any files in /dev directory; except
for console and null nodes of course. I also added the line
"/sbin/udevstart" to my rc.sysinit file, but that doesn't seem to do
anything.

-Richard

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