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On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote |
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First a disclaimer... I am not a C programmer, let alone a developer. |
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I feel like I've been dragged into this kicking and screaming in order |
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to save the Gentoo that I remember from a few years ago. |
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> Out of curiosity, since mdev is (i assume) more than complete enough |
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> to handle mounting, would it be possible to initially start with mdev |
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> and then hand over control to udev (if there was a need for udev, that |
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> is) , to avoid initramfs with separate /usr ? |
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I think that's exactly how initramfs itself works. You might be able |
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to use an initrd instead of initramfs. See Zac Medico's posting at... |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml |
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That was the clue that got me started on replacing udev with mdev. |
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Once you have psuedo-filesystems and partitions mounted, you need to |
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shut down mdev and start up udev. And make sure that |
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/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug points to udev. |
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If you want to get fancy, you can boot from a separate small boot |
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partition, or for that matter a USB key. Then either chroot or |
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pivot_root into the udev environment. For pivot_root man pages see |
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http://linux.die.net/man/8/pivot_root and |
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http://linux.die.net/man/2/pivot_root |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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