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From: "Jesse
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-server] Problems switching to udev and 2.6.x kernel
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:51:01
Message-Id: FB5D3CCFCECC2948B5DCF4CABDBE6697545DA4@QTEX1.qg.com
1 It's been awhile since I've done this, but I remember needing to emerge
2 coldplug as well as hotplug for the change.
3
4 HTH! GL!
5
6 R2
7
8 -----Original Message-----
9 From: Karl Zander [mailto:gentoolist@××××××××××××.com]
10 Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:34 PM
11 To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
12 Subject: [gentoo-server] Problems switching to udev and 2.6.x kernel
13
14
15 I finally got around to switching our samba box to the 2.6.x kernel. I
16 followed the kernel migration guide posted on-line. Upon reboot with
17 the
18 2.6.14-hardened-r3 kernel it failed because it could not find any
19 devices. After poking around a bit on the forum I did see posts about
20 altering fstab to use different device names like
21
22 /dev/discs/disc0/part2 /boot ext3
23 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 none swap
24 etc
25
26 in place of
27 /dev/sda2 /boot ext3
28 /dev/sda3 none swap
29 etc
30
31 Those changes allowed me to at least boot up.
32
33
34 I did remove devfs after installing udev. I see now the migration guide
35 is
36 silent about removing devfs. Was removing it incorrect?
37 The server was up to date before I tried the migration. Both system and
38
39 world were updated.
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41 Other forum postings indicated to be sure HOT_PLUGGING was enabled in
42 the
43 kernel. It was. In the 2.6.14 kernels it seems to be set to Y
44 automatically and you can not set it to N.
45
46 in /etc/conf.d/rc RC_DEVICES="auto"
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48 After spending most of Saturday working on this I finally reverted to
49 2.4.32-hardened-r2 and emerged devfs again. My "regular" device names
50 reappeared again.
51
52 So what's the secret to udev?
53
54 --Karl
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