From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:04:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5758CE9F.3040000@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160609003643.GA3010@waltdnes.org>
waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:05:47PM -0500, Dale wrote
>
>> I switched mine back when eudev was new and not even stable yet. It was
>> as simple as unmerge udev and emerge eudev. I don't recall even doing a
>> reboot, which I rarely do here anyway.
> *** WARNING *** After unmerging udev, do *NOT*, repeat *NOT*, reboot
> *** UNTIL AFTER INSTALLING EUDEV *** (same applies to going the other
> way). You cannot boot Gentoo without a device manager in place. Once
> you've installed eudev, you'll get an urgent message to execute...
>
> /etc/init.d/udev --nodeps restart
>
> At this point, you can safely reboot, but a restart is less of a pain.
>
That is a good point to make. The best way to be sure, emerge -C udev
&& emerge eudev and don't do anything until at least that finishes.
Rebooting in the middle would be bad.
Can a system even boot without udev? I would think the bootloader would
get it to a certain point but then die later on. :/
Dale
:-) :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-09 2:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-07 20:00 [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev? wabe
2016-06-07 20:16 ` R0b0t1
2016-06-07 22:05 ` Dale
2016-06-08 0:43 ` wabe
2016-06-08 1:54 ` Dale
2016-06-12 22:15 ` wabe
2016-06-09 7:45 ` Marc Joliet
2016-06-12 22:06 ` wabe
2016-06-13 0:47 ` waltdnes
2016-06-13 1:43 ` wabe
2016-06-13 14:10 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2016-06-14 4:46 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-06-14 13:06 ` James
2016-06-15 7:06 ` Marc Joliet
2016-06-15 10:29 ` Rich Freeman
2016-06-15 14:16 ` Tom H
2016-06-09 0:36 ` [gentoo-user] " waltdnes
2016-06-09 2:04 ` Dale [this message]
2016-06-09 4:34 ` karl
2016-06-09 13:16 ` Dale
2016-06-09 13:53 ` waltdnes
2016-06-09 14:00 ` Dale
2016-06-10 2:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2016-06-10 3:10 ` Dale
2016-06-10 18:02 ` waltdnes
2016-06-12 22:17 ` wabe
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