Re: RedHat 7.0 anaconda installer doesn't support devfs

From: Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 15:30:27 EDT

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    On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 09:19:45PM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote:
    > Jeff Merkey wrote:
    >
    > >On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:31:05AM -0400, jeff millar wrote:
    > >> Redhat support got back to me today and said 7.0 doesnt support
    > >> upgrades to systems running devfs. But I thought sure than Linus
    > >> blessed it! :-)
    > >> Does anyone have a fix?
    > >
    > >Good question. I noticed this as well.
    >
    >
    > I couldn't run devfs on a fresh install of RedHat 7 either; the
    > use of labels in fstab to identify partitions seems to preclude this.

    Eh? That doesn't make sense. I've used devfs & LABELs in my fstab before
    fine. That really shouldn't be the problem. Your root gets mounted, yes?
    Then /proc and /proc is needed (I don't know the file) for the LABEL/UUID->
    device stuff.

    > Well, I *could* have hacked all the necessary scripts if I knew what
    > they were, I guess.

    The rawhide scripts used to start devfs all by themselves. 

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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