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diff --git a/HOWTO-udev_for_dev b/HOWTO-udev_for_dev deleted file mode 100644 index 9833dd1411..0000000000 --- a/HOWTO-udev_for_dev +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ -HOWTO use udev to manage /dev - - This document describes one way to get udev working on a Fedora-development - machine to manage /dev. This procedure may be used to get udev to manage - /dev on other distros, if you modify some of the steps. - - This will only work if you use a 2.6 based kernel, preferably the most - recent one. This does not prevent your machine from using a 2.4 - kernel, if you boot into one, udev will not run and your old /dev will - be present with no changes needed. - - -NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE - This is completely unsupported. Attempting to do this may cause your - machine to be unable to boot properly. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Always - have a rescue disk or CD handy to allow you to fix up any errors that - may occur. -NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE - - - - Build and install udev as specified in the README that comes with - udev. I recommend using the following build options to get the - smallest possible binaries: - make USE_KLIBC=true USE_LOG=false DEBUG=false - - - disable udev from the boot process by running: - chkconfig udev off - or - chkconfig --del udev - as root. - - - place the start_udev script somewhere that is accessible by your - initscripts. I placed it into /etc/rc.d with the following command: - copy extras/start_udev /etc/rc.d/ - - - modify the rc.sysinit script to call the start_udev script as one of - the first things that it does, but after /proc and /sys are mounted. - I did this with the latest Fedora startup scripts with the patch at - the end of this file. - - - make sure the /etc/udev/udev.conf file lists the udev_root as "/dev/" - and the udev_db as "/dev/.udevdb". It should contain the - following lines in order to work properly. - udev_root="/dev/" - udev_db="/dev/.udevdb" - - - reboot into a 2.6 kernel and watch udev create all of the initial - device nodes in /dev - - -If anyone has any problems with this, please let me, and the -linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list know. - -A big thanks go out to the Gentoo developers for showing me that this is -possible to do. - -Greg Kroah-Hartman -<greg@kroah.com> - - ----------------------------------- -Patch to modify rc.sysinit to call udev at the beginning of the boot -process: - - ---- /etc/rc.sysinit.orig 2004-02-17 11:45:17.000000000 -0800 -+++ /etc/rc.sysinit 2004-02-17 13:28:33.000000000 -0800 -@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ - - . /etc/init.d/functions - -+# start udev to populate /dev -+/etc/rc.d/start_udev -+ - if [ "$HOSTTYPE" != "s390" -a "$HOSTTYPE" != "s390x" ]; then - last=0 - for i in `LC_ALL=C grep '^[0-9].*respawn:/sbin/mingetty' /etc/inittab | sed 's/^.* tty\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/g'`; do - - |