Here is fedora's initrd nash script from my system. I modified it with the sleep lines.
It already is creating the /dev node with 'mkrootdev /dev/root' I don't think udev is even running yet. Something else is causing this. echo "Loading libata.ko module" insmod /lib/libata.ko echo "Loading ata_piix.ko module" insmod /lib/ata_piix.ko echo "Loading raid1.ko module" insmod /lib/raid1.ko /sbin/udevstart raidautorun /dev/md0 >>>echo Sleep 1 >>>sleep 1 echo Creating root device mkrootdev /dev/root umount /sys echo Mounting root filesystem mount -o defaults --ro -v -t ext3 /dev/root /sysroot mount -t tmpfs --bind /dev /sysroot/dev echo Switching to new root switchroot /sysroot umount /initrd/dev -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/