Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

[Ernie Schroder]

On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:55, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to 
write:
> On 12/17/05, Ernie Schroder <schroder@×××××.net> wrote:
> > I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation
> > on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't
> > notice right away fail to work until I do:
> > # udevstart
> > /dev/dsp is created with correct permissions and I'm good to go. The
> > question is:
> > How to I get udev to start at boot?
>
> Udevstart doesn't actually start udevd...it just rescans the devices
> and recreates device nodes.  The actual udev daemon is started by
> /sbin/rc, possibly via /lib/rc-scripts/add-ons/udev-start.sh depending
> upon your version of baselayout.

via /lib/rc-scripts/add-ons/ contains devfs start and stop and udev start and 
stop scripts.
/sbin/rc looks right
>
> Having RC_DEVICES=udev or auto should be sufficient to start udevd on
> startup.  Setting dev=udev in grub.conf is not necessary, and probably
> won't change anything.

Having RC_DEVICES=udev or auto 

Where??
>
> Now for your missing device nodes, maybe you just need to do:
>
> rc-update -a coldplug default
moved coldplug from boot to default no joy
>
> > kernel /bzImage-2.6.14-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/hda5 dev=udev
> > video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr vga=0x317
> >
> > Also If you see why the boot complains about my video mode, feel free to
> > comment.
>
> 1. If you are using vesafb-tng, you cannot use vga= to set the video
> mode. It must be part of the video option like so:
> video=vesafb:1024x768-8@60,ywrap,mtrr

Thanks that did it
>
> 2. If you are not using vesafb-tng, you cannot use video=, so you
> should take out that option.
>
> -Richard

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