Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:

> On Saturday 30 July 2005 23:42, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:22:31PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>> > The 2.6.13 rc kernels have devfs removed.  Debian won't support 2.6.13
>> > until this problem is fixed.
>>
>> Debian works just fine without devfs once installed, thanks.  Please
>> reassign to whatever d-i component relies on devfs to pull in the
>> Ubunutu changes.
>
> No it doesn't.  If you have a working Debian system with root on LVM and 
> install kernel 2.6.13-rc4 then it won't boot.  This is due to a bug in 
> initrd-tools so I don't think that the bug should be reassigned (not until 
> there is an alternative to initrd-tools anyway).

Does that also apply when using a older kernel without devfs support
enabled?

MfG
        Goswin