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I finally got around to switching our samba box to the 2.6.x kernel. I |
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followed the kernel migration guide posted on-line. Upon reboot with the |
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2.6.14-hardened-r3 kernel it failed because it could not find any |
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devices. After poking around a bit on the forum I did see posts about |
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altering fstab to use different device names like |
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/dev/discs/disc0/part2 /boot ext3 |
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/dev/discs/disc0/part3 none swap |
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etc |
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in place of |
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/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 |
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/dev/sda3 none swap |
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etc |
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Those changes allowed me to at least boot up. |
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I did remove devfs after installing udev. I see now the migration guide is |
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silent about removing devfs. Was removing it incorrect? |
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The server was up to date before I tried the migration. Both system and |
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world were updated. |
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Other forum postings indicated to be sure HOT_PLUGGING was enabled in the |
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kernel. It was. In the 2.6.14 kernels it seems to be set to Y |
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automatically and you can not set it to N. |
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in /etc/conf.d/rc RC_DEVICES="auto" |
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After spending most of Saturday working on this I finally reverted to |
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2.4.32-hardened-r2 and emerged devfs again. My "regular" device names |
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reappeared again. |
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So what's the secret to udev? |
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--Karl |
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