On 4/7/13, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 07 Apr 2013 17:00:24 Nick Khamis wrote: >> >> You should do udev first, that way if it breaks you have the maximum >> >> amount of time to get things working again. Not that I'm a >> >> pessimist... >> >> >> >> PS Please don't top-post, it is frowned upon on this list. >> >> Makes sense and I apologize for the top posts. Have everything up to >> date with udev in the crosshairs. That being said: >> >> 1) Network drivers are compiled as modules >> 2) I deleted the contents of /etc/udev/rules.d (i.e, 70-something....) >> 3) Removed udev-postmount from runlevels. >> >> That should be sufficient to hold onto the old names eth0/1....? > > If they are built as modules, then I would expect the old naming convention > to > be retained - unless you had renamed them in a different order in your 70- > something... rules. > > This is not all though. Check the page: > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade > > You also need CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y in your kernel and if there is a /dev entry > in > your /etc/fstab, then it must have devtmpfs as its fs type. Most > installations would not have such an entry in /etc/fstab - but better check > to > be safe. > -- > Regards, > Mick >
Oh yes! The devtempfs is enabled in the kernel, and no entry in fstab. Forgot to mention that. N.
