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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:30:57PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> Has anyone gotten devfs working under any version of Gentoo?  If so,
> would someone care to share some pointers.
> 
> Right now, it boots, gets as far as "starting local" and then hangs.
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated...

I have it working, although I hacked-in the support on my dev box rather
than using our "official" method.

I compiled a kernel with devfs support, and enabled the auto-mount on boot
option.  Then, I created an rc script to run "/sbin/devfsd /dev" on boot and
"killall devfsd" on shutdown.  Then, I configured it to start up in runlevel 0,
in position 03 (in /etc/rc.d/rcboot.d, right after "pretty").  It looks like
an older script on cvs started it in runlevel 1, maybe that's the problem?
Make sure you've installed the most recent version of sys-apps/devfsd, and
then remove any devfsd symlink that may exist in /etc/rc.d/rc1.d.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.