Hi all, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:07:41PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote > > First a disclaimer... I am not a C programmer, let alone a developer. > I feel like I've been dragged into this kicking and screaming in order > to save the Gentoo that I remember from a few years ago. > > > Out of curiosity, since mdev is (i assume) more than complete enough > > to handle mounting, would it be possible to initially start with mdev > > and then hand over control to udev (if there was a need for udev, that > > is) , to avoid initramfs with separate /usr ? > > I think that's exactly how initramfs itself works. You might be able > to use an initrd instead of initramfs. See Zac Medico's posting at... > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml > That was the clue that got me started on replacing udev with mdev.
initrd is deprecated and has been for a long time; you should use initramfs. > Once you have psuedo-filesystems and partitions mounted, you need to > shut down mdev and start up udev. And make sure that > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug points to udev. If you are using udev, /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug should be empty; do not point this to udev. Thanks, William
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