Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-29,: Re: /dev filesystem in 2.4.0test5/pre3

# Re: /dev filesystem in 2.4.0test5/pre3

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:07:38 +0100 (BST)

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Michael,

devfs has been added to the kernel quite a long time ago. At compile time
you can either:

a) disable it completely (not recommended, it is a nice thing)

b) disable mounting it under /dev by defauly (recommended for beginners
until they get used to it and then they will like it and enable "mount
/dev on boot" :)

Btw, it is all well-documented under Documentation/filesystems/devfs/

Regards,
Tigran

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Michael Borrelli wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I have some odd things happen when I try to boot 2.4.0test5pre3.
>
> First, I can't boot into a normal run level. The kernel tries to mount
> /dev and fails in finding/creating most devices including my harddrives &
> ttys. So the kernel fails telling me that it can't mount swap or /home
> since /dev/hda* doesn't exit. I found that if use the long name
> (something like /dev/ide/ide0/.../partition8) that I can mount /home and
> it works fine. But still, this doesn't help with the ttys.
>
> I'm starting to get a little nervous since 2.4.0 is going to be released
> soon and I still can't run normally with it. If anyone can be of
> assistance, or needs any more information from me, please ask.
>
> My info follows:
>
> Thanks,
> -Mike
>
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 5
> model : 4
> model name : Pentium MMX
> stepping : 4
> cpu MHz : 167.048864
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : yes
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
> bogomips : 333.41
>
> # cat /proc/modules
> autofs 9604 1 (autoclean)
> usb-uhci 26660 0 (unused)
> usbcore 27236 0 [usb-uhci]
> ne2k-pci 4460 1 (autoclean)
> 8390 6204 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
> opl3 14120 0
> sb 37108 0
> uart401 6704 0 [sb]
> sound 64408 0 [opl3 sb uart401]
> soundlow 420 0 [sound]
> soundcore 3748 6 [sb sound]
>
> # cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.2.15-4mdk (chmou@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Wed May 10 15:31:30 CEST 2000
>
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