Christian Leimer wrote: > Sebastiaan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Christian Leimer wrote: >> >>> Hello World! >>> >>> I have done something with MAKEDEV maybe this was not good at all. >>> But how can i undo that udev works and the error is gone. My system >>> still works. But what means this saying that udev is already active? Is >>> there a way to reinstall /dev the debian way, how should it look like? >>> Any docs? I use sarge and my own 2.6 kernel with hotplug and sysfs and >>> procfs and all the needed stuff. >>> >> In which stage do you get the fatal message? And how fatal is it? System >> hang, or just no udev? > > Direct after INIT 2.86 starts. > >> >> As far as I know, MAKEDEV just makes old device nodes (mknod-like). When >> udev gets initialized, it 'overwrites' /dev completely. Are you sure it >> was MAKEDEV? And can you remember something about what you did? >> > > I did a ./MAKEDEV generic . The system works also if I deinstall udev. I > thought it is needed for hotplug but seems not to be needed. > > Thanks Chris. > >
I today moved a /dev folder from an other clean sarge disk and this fixed it. However! I now have a /dev which seems to be created by udev and I have an .dev where all the old stuff is. Is this the debian way? Bye Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
