[Fedora-livecd-list] no /dev/root with newer kernels again

Sebastian Vahl ml at deadbabylon.de
Tue Mar 20 09:31:06 UTC 2007


Am Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:10:10 -0400
schrieb Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>:

> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:39 +0100, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > It seems that the problem was udev-106-1. When I replaced it with
> > udev-105-1 the created cds are bootable again. Also with actual
> > rawhide.
> > 
> > Does anyone knows what problem(s) causes the newer version of udev?
> > It It was not the new subpackage for the static files. I installed
> > this on my host and included it in the configs for the livecd.
> 
> My first guess would be that a change in udev broke the udev rules for
> setting up /dev/root.  Are the right modules getting loaded and can
> you see the block device in /sys/block?  If so, then are all of the
> right entries (other than /dev/root) being set up properly in /dev?

This screenshot is from qemu:
http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=qemuerroruj0.png
(outputs are ls /sys/block, lsmod, ls /dev)

I have not much experiences with udev rules. So I cannot guess which
(changed) rule could produce this behaviour.

Sebastian
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