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Brian Millett bpm at ec-group.com
Fri Sep 17 15:39:22 UTC 2004


>
>> MAKEDEV-3.13-1
>> --------------
>> * Tue Sep 14 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 3.13-1
>>
>> - excise all architecture-specific logic and configuration data --
>> udev knows
>>   no arch-specific details, so they should be irrelevant now
>> - remove build conflicts on older RPM, unnecessary now that dev is
>> gone - remove dev's %post fstab munging
>> - add a short-circuit test for the common non-match cases
>>
>> * Tue Sep 14 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 3.12.2-1
>>
>> - add the vcsa user and floppy group in the MAKEDEV package now
>>
>> * Mon Sep 13 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 3.12.1-1
>>
>> - nuke the "dev" subpackage
>>
>>
>> udev-030-26
>> -----------
>> * Mon Sep 13 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> - 030-26
>>
>> - require a 2.6 kernel
>> - prereq instead of requires MAKEDEV
>> - obsolete and provide dev
>> - add a trigger for the removal of /dev so that we set things up
>>
>> * Fri Sep 10 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> - 030-25
>>
>> - Use matchmediacon
>>
>
> Ok, right now after updating to this latest, I can not boot.  I get to
> the point of this:
>
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.9 starting
> Mounted /proc filesystem
> Mounting sysfs
> Loading jdb.ko module
> Creating block devices
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: mounted file system with ordered data mode.
> Switching to new root
>
>
> Then it just hangs and nothing happens.  It doesn't matter if I use
> older kernels, same behavior.  I have no clue.  Is it because the dev
> package was deleted?  I had set in /etc/udev/udev.conf
> UDEV_INITRD="no"
> to avoid the many error messages at boot time, should that be set to
> "yes"?  Then remake the initrd?

Well, normally I hate to answer my own post, but in this case I'm
ecstatic.  Setting UDEV_INITRD="yes" and regenerating the initrd fix my
situation.

kernel=2.6.8-1.549
MAKEDEV-3.13-1
udev-030-26

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