Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Mick wrote:
>>  From my understanding, the dev is not listening.  That is another thing that
>> bothers me.  When devs stop listening to users, that causes a problem.
>>   Remember hal?  How many people complained early on about the config files?
>>   Lots.  I also don't like that a very few people or just one person can make
>> a decision like this that will have a negative affect on a LOT and I mean a
>> LOT of users.  That is something that needs to be dealt with.  What I would
>> like to see is this, a good stable alternative that works well with a proper
>> fix and for that to push udev out and render it null.  I think that would
>> serve the dev right.  Listen to the people that use it or people will use
>> something else.  The mdev package comes to mind here.  Maybe this will push
>> it to take udevs place.  It seems there is enough people that opposes this.
>>   If a few commercial and paying people can help, it may just be the next
>> better thing.
> As I understand it, nothing of udev itself is in /usr, but instead
> packages and scripts which plug themselves into udev to be triggered
> by various events.
>
> Perhaps the real solution is to circumvent udev and get those other
> packages and scripts to not put hotplug-active files under /usr.
>
>

Either way, udev is what is the root of it.  Udev is calling for 
something that is not there.  Either udev needs to change or it needs to 
require the files to be somewhere other than /usr.

Dale

:-)  :-)