Re: [gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration

[<brettholcomb@bellsouth.net>]

I used the steps on the Gentoo docs.  They also link to some udev site.

Essentially
1.  Set up kernel not to autostart devfs (when everything is okay you can remove devfs from the kernel)
2.  emerge udev
3.  I modified /etc/conf.d/rc (I think it was) to have a devfs and a udev version.  The udev version did not use the tarball and had another variable set.
4. Save the devfs rc and then copy the udev rc to rc
5. Reboot.

For me it worked.

> 
> From: "Richard P. Groenewegen" <rpg@xs2all.net>
> Date: 2005/07/19 Tue PM 01:10:10 EDT
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] safe devfs -> udev migration
> 
> All,
> 
> During the gentoo installation I had very nasty error messages after
> the first reboot.  The partition table of my harddisk was unreadable
> and the file system could not be mounted.
> 
> Installation of devfs solved it, but, as I can tell from the mailing
> list devfs is obsolete.
> 
> **    What is a safe way to migrate to udev?    **
> 
> I'd prefer to do only steps that are reversible, as the installation
> is now finished and it took a while.  For your information, I have
> /dev support in my 2.6 kernel.  Is it essential to remove /dev
> support?
> 
> best regards,
> Richard
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> 
> 

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