Does udev make system unbootable?

[Dwaine Garden]

Mike Klinke wrote:

>On Saturday 18 September 2004 00:19, Chris Ha wrote:
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>>I think I got udev package onto my fc3 t1 box by
>>updating all the packages from yesterday(09/17/04)'s
>>development tree. After that, it manages my system
>>unbootable as below.
>>
>>At boot message :
>>warning : unable to open an initial console
>>(just 2 more lines about SElinux - I don't recall)
>>
>>after these messages, booting process hangs there.
>>
>>If someone knows about how to fix, could you please
>>help me out?
>>
>>I have checked /dev directory using Knoppix, and seems
>>like many of device files are not there. I'd like to
>>know how to fix, specially with Knoppix if possible,
>>of course other ways of fixing are welcomed.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>atie
>>
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>I ran into the "won't boot" symptom too because I had previously 
>turned off the 'udev' mechanism in conjunction with initrd (a udev 
>configuration item).  However, with yesterdays updates I found I 
>had to re-enable the udev/initrd feature and re-run mkinitrd 
>against the chosen kernel package in order to boot.
>
>for example:
> 
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.541.img 2.6.8-1.541
>
>Regards, Mike Klinke
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>
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I recompiled the kernel again from scratch.  Same thing...  Who do you 
re-enable the udev/initrd features?
I must have it off with the compiled version of the kernel.org kernel.