[gentoo-dev] DEVFS

[gentoo-dev] DEVFS

[Jerry A!]

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...

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
phone: 703.599.6023               ||  matter of life or death...
email: jerry@thehutt.org          ||  ...It's much more important
                                  ||  than that!

Re: [gentoo-dev] DEVFS

[drobbins]

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,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] DEVFS

[Achim Gottinger]

"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...

You moust install the devfsd package and add "devfs=mount " (if you use
the default kernel or you don't have set the AUTOMOUNT on boot option in
your kernel) to your boot options.
If you need devices that are not handled by devfs you can create them in
/etc/devfs and the
devfs start-script copies them after devfsd has started to /dev.
Re/Storing of device permissions is on my ToDO list.
I use devfs since a month or so without problems.

achim~

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>
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[gentoo-dev] DevFS

[Sebastian Werner]

I have detected that there is an entry in dev-wiki which tells that we need
devices in dev for a working devfsd. I don't think so. On my current rc5
system it work really good whithout normal device-files...

Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-dev] DevFS

[Achim Gottinger]

Sebastian Werner wrote:
> 
> I have detected that there is an entry in dev-wiki which tells that we need
> devices in dev for a working devfsd. I don't think so. On my current rc5
> system it work really good whithout normal device-files...
> 

But you have devfs build in your kernel. If you use devfs as a module
you need some basic devices,
otherwise init does not start.

bye achim~

> Sebastian
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[gentoo-dev] DEVFS

[Daniel Bondurant]

I am setting up a new install of gentoo linux.  very nice so far.
one question: I have the kernel compilied with /dev file system on, and
I can boot and see everything in /dev, but I get a warning that DEVFS is
not enabled on boot.

where does it check for that, and how do I turn it off (since I know
DEVFS is working)

thanks