As you know, udev upstream is about to remove udevstart. For the purposes of
installing Grub, however, the following shell scriptlet works just fine
instead of udevstart:
for DEVICE in /sys/block/*/dev /sys/block/*/*/dev ; do
IFS=: read MAJOR MINOR <$DEVICE
mknod /dev/`basename ${DEVICE%/dev}` b $MAJOR $MINOR
done
It doesn't fully work for the purpose of installing patched LILO on a LVM2
volume, but the plain old udevstart didn't either, so let's ignore this
problem. Anyway, it is easily solved by "rm /dev/dm-* && vgmknodes". Also it
doesn't create character devices at all, but neither Grub nor Lilo needs them.
I propose to put this scriptlet into the udev_update book.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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