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karl@××××××××.se wrote: |
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> Dale: |
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>> Can a system even boot without udev? |
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> Yes, use sys-fs/static-dev (unless you have some special boot |
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> requirements). |
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Well, I was talking about if udev was removed and then a reboot was |
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done. I would think it would boot to a certain point then when whatever |
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started and needed devices to be created in /dev, it would start |
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failing. I suspect this would vary depending on the install as well. |
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>> I would think the bootloader would get it to a certain point |
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>> but then die later on. :/ |
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> The bootloader needs to find the kernel and possible the initrd/ |
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> initramfs if you use them. |
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> Then kernel needs (depending on your setup) to find the root |
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> filesystem and then /sbin/init. |
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> And init needs to start up the rest of the system. |
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> The above have been working wery well for a long time, but if you don't |
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> use udev and initrd et al, most (all?) distributions don't help you |
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> anymore with it; you have to know yourself how to do it. |
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> Regards, |
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> /Karl Hammar |
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I get what you are saying and sounds about right. I figure the |
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bootloader would load the kernel and the kernel would do most of the |
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loading until it needed something that udev does. At that point, things |
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start to fail. I'm not going to test this theory tho. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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