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