On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 12:09:01PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:00, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2004, Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It seems that udev is now virtually mandatory as of the latest > > > rawhide update. > > > > This is what makes it, like, mandatory: > > > > /etc/udev/udev.conf: > > UDEV_INITRD="yes" > > > > Change it to `no' and hopefully everything will work again. It breaks > > more than SELinux. > > Thanks for that advice. Once I looked at that I noticed that there's an > option UDEV_RAMFS in the same file which must be set to "no". I'm not sure > whether UDEV_RAMFS="no" would allow it to work on SE Linux with > UDEV_INITRD="yes" but don't have any plans to test this at the moment. where does that option come from? on debian, all the options in 0.030's config file are lower-case, and there's no udev_initrd="yes" or "no". > We either need to get ramfs working in the Fedora kernels or make some changes > to the udev plans. > > One option would be to use an ext2 file system on a ram disk for udev. It > would do all the same stuff as ramfs (at a slightly higher memory cost) and > work perfectly with SE Linux. *whew*. l.
