On 9/16/05, Dave Nebinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I create /dev/hdc it stays for one reboot.
> > These values I've got in /etc/conf.d/rc:
> >
> > RC_DEVICES="udev"
> > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes"
> >
> > hdc is a cdrom on my laptop. What can cause this?
>
> Turn off the tarball option, or create /dev/hdc and recreate your tarball.
>
> What's happening is upon startup the tarball is used to create the initial
> /dev contents. I'm willing to bet the tarball does not have the /dev/hdc
> link, therefore it is not being created.
>
> I know that when I did the udev migration it had some steps to build the
> tarball, but as I remember I too was missing the /dev/hd{c,d} links. By
> setting tarball to no, udev manually recreates the /dev directory based
> upon
> the devices themselves so it will be there.
>
> Dave
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I did something like that:
-I set up RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
-rebooted, all hdcX disappeard, and hdc appeard
-I set up RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes"
-rebooted
-there is no hdc*
what else can I do?
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