udev troubles

rockneybot · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Los Angeles

Hello ladies and gentlemen. I have been futzing around with udev for a while now, it's time for some support.

I have followed the gentoo /dev guide and the gentoo wiki howto. I have edited /etc/udev/udev.conf, /etc/conf.d/rc appropriately. I have compiled the 2.6.9-r4 kernel with hotplug support, checked that devfs won't automount, emerged udev, hotplug, baselayout, etc. I tried devfs=nomount and gentoo=nodevfs kernel options. First option causes init to complain that "you wanted udev but support for it was not available", second option states that I don't have support for either udev or devfs. Both are false, as far as I can tell. Can somebody help me out here? Need more information?

Thank you.
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paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

Hmm I do not pass any parameters to the kernel when I boot mine and udev works without problems.
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Meh.

Paranoid · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject:

Check to make sure you have file systems/pseudo file systems/virtual memory support compiled in.
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rockneybot · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Los Angeles

yes, i have those compiled in.
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rockneybot · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Los Angeles

Ladius · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:15 pm Post subject:

I was having the same problem and finally found this thread.

I added "gentoo=nodevfs udev" to my command arguement and bingo working

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=238686&start=25

I've confirmed this fixes my newly rebuilt laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) and my desktop (P4-HT system w/ sata but booting off regular ide).