On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:59:58 +0000 > Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > Confused. Suggestions welcome. > > I've never had this problem, so I can't think what could be the cause. > What I would suggest is that you compile your kernel with > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y > > Then the kernel will mount a tmpfs on /dev and populate it with all the > devices it can before udev is run. It will at least give you all your > disk partitions. I can boot to the command prompt and mount all my > partitions without running udev at all. Xorg won't start without udev > but the system is quite usable other than that. > Thanks, I'll give that a try.
> I didn't catch which versions of the bootscripts you are using. There > have been some changes to the way udevadm behaves. What command does > your udev bootscript use to launch udev? Do your bootscripts need a > tmpfs mounted on /run? > > Andy It's the 6.8 book, so lfs-bootscripts-20100627. It mounts a tmpfs on /dev, echoes to /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, copies the null device from /lib/udev/devices/null, then starts udev with /sbin/udevd --daemon. After that, /sbin/udevadm trigger --action=add and then /sbin/udevadm settle. All of these exist. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
