Probably a given - but udev-030-26 made my system unbootable (detailed)

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Sep 18, 2004, at 04:44, Mark Mielke wrote:

> The first error was "Warning: unable to find a console" or something 
> to that
> effect. The boot process paused. I manually created:
>
>     crw-------  1 root root   5,   1 Sep 17 22:18 console
>
> Then, it complained about /dev/null not being writable. Sure enough,
> /dev/null was a regular file with bytes in it. *sigh* Created that as:
>
>     crw-rw-rw-  1 root root   1,   3 Feb 23  2004 null
>
> No luck. Booting still had major trouble. Finally I gave up:
>
> To get myself back into working order - I renamed /dev to /dev.udev
> and copied a working /dev from another partition to /dev. It looks
> like a lot of things are missing from /dev.udev. The current contents
> of /dev.udev is (after I added console and null):

The same happened to me after upgrading to the new "udev" from RawHide, 
but instead, I used "/sbin/MAKEDEV" to manually recreate all devices 
used by IDE, console, linux-2.6.x and so. It seems "udev" is dangerous 
when not using and INITRD.