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Marcel J.E. Mol marcel at mesa.nl
Sat Sep 18 09:25:00 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:39:22AM -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
> 
> >
> >> 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
> 

Thanks! I was having the same problem and was into the rescue mode too when
I read your solution.

The only thing now is that the nvidia driver is not autoloaded anymore when
starting X...

-Marcel
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