Probably a given - but udev-030-26 made my system unbootable (detailed)
Felipe Alfaro Solana
felipe_alfaro at linuxmail.org
Sat Sep 18 10:50:17 UTC 2004
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.
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