- If you build your own kernel, and want to boot it from one of the
- filesystems distributed from this site, then, in nearly all cases,
- devfs must be compiled into the kernel and mounted at boot time. The
- exception is the SuSE filesystem. For this, devfs must either not be
- in the kernel at all, or "devfs=nomount" must be on the kernel command
- line. Any disagreement between the kernel and the filesystem being
- booted about whether devfs is being used will result in the boot
- getting no further than single-user mode.
-
-
- If you don't want to use devfs, you can remove the need for it from a
- filesystem by copying /dev from someplace, making a bunch of /dev/ubd
- devices:
-
-
- UML# for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mknod ubd$i b 98 $i; done
-
-
-
-
- and changing /etc/fstab and /etc/inittab to refer to the non-devfs
- devices.
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-