Re: [gentoo-user] udev update changed cd/dvd device name

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Bruce Hill
<daddy@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:59:34AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Anyone else run into this problem with udev-171-r9? I updated
>> yesterday and my CD/DVD, which has been /dev/cdrom1 since I built the
>> machine 2 1/2 years ago, is now called /dev/scd0.
>>
>> Machine is x86_64, mostly stable.
>>
>> - Mark

<SNIP>

>
> You need to add udev-mount to the sysinit runlevel.
> If you do not do this,
> your system will not be able to boot!
> Run this command:
>         rc-update add udev-mount sysinit
> LOG: postinst
>

<SNIP>

>
>
> Always good to have some idiot change things without mentioning it.
>
> Before the update and reboot mine was /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/sr0
>
> Good way to spend my day finding what said idiot broke where/why...
>

Thanks Bruce. That at least goes a long way toward explaining why the
system is acting the way it's acting. Threw me for a loop I must say.

Interestingly I don't have the elog file you show above. (Not sure I
should, just saying I don't.) In the file above it talks about running
udev-mount in sysinit which I don't have, and have never had. I shows
up in rc-update show --verbose so I could set it I suppose although I
hate messing with sysinit level stuff when I'm not clear why it's
needed.

Thanks for the pointer on why this happened.

Cheers,
Mark