On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:52 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
I made an update from FC2 to FC3, and now, my machine will no more boot:
The boot stops when executing the init scripts:
having problems with the /dev directory (cannot open /dev//null and/or
/dev//console). I'm not using the FC3 kernel, but the vanilla kernel
2.6.9. When using the FC3 kernel, all is OK. I think, it has
to do with udev (in my vanilla kernel, hotplug is configered
correctly!).
I've seen this as well- have been unable to get FC3* to run
under a vanilla kernel.org kernel. When i disable the 'quiet' flag
in grub, the boot process aborts with something like 'unable to open
/dev/console'.
I never reported it because I thought i was missing something
obvious- i guess I'm not the only one.
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
did you also make an initrd?
(if you used "make install" in the kernel tree one should have been
created for you automatically, as well as it being added to grub
automatically)
I know I did when I tried it, except i run mkinitrd manually.
Could this have something to do with udev? I noticed that if
I enabled the deprecated /dev FS, it broke in a slightly different
manner. I suspect the problem is the FC3 environment expects a
magic combination of kernel options- I just have not been able to
stumble upon them yet...
ron