Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related) | From | Sean Neakums <> | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:20:55 +0100 |
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commence Ed Sweetman quotation:
> It appears i'm completely unable to not use devfs. Attempting to > run the kernel without mounting devfs results in it still being > mounted or if not compiled in, locks up during boot. Attempts to > run the kernel and mv /dev does not work, umounting /dev does not > work and rm'ing /dev does not work. I cant create the non-devfs > nodes while devfs is mounted and i cant boot the kernel without > devfs. It seems that no uninstall procedure has been made and i've > read the documentation that comes with the kernel about devfs and it > says nothing about how to move back to the old device nodes from > devfs. > > anyone have any suggestions?
Where does the boot hang? If it comaplains about not being able to open /dev/console or some other device node, it may be that your /dev has no nodes in it. This happened to me when I eradicated devfs (I got fed up of fighting with devfsd to get my permission changes to stick, and had reshuffled FSes in the meantime) and so I booted from a rescue disk, mounted my root FS and recreated the device nodes in /mnt/dev.
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