dev-sources (2.6.5) and DEVFS

Guy Piggford · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Portland, OR

I've been running the gaming-sources happily for a while now and have just started trying to get a 2.6 kenel up and running.

When I boot up, I see a warning saying that gentoo requires that the kernel be built with DEVFS support and that it's detected that it's missing, followed by a wait 15 seconds or hit return message.

OK, I thought, I know that it was marked as obsolete in the configuration, but I'll stick it in anyway, so I did a rebuild with both CONFIG_DEVFS_FS and CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT set to y, installed the lernel but I still get the error.

Has anyone else seen this? Any guesses what I've screwed up here?

Thanks.

scout · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 10:01 am Post subject:

Maybe you have devfs=nomount in your kernel options. By the way devfs is replaced by udev, so you migt want to look at the udev howto http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and leave devfs for ever
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yngwin · Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

Oh yes, it's about time that Gentoo will use 2.6 kernels and udev (and nptl for that matter) by default!
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