On Thursday 01 September 2005 4:06 pm, Neil Gunton wrote: > Thomas Steffen wrote: > > On 9/1/05, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) <jean.luc.coulon@gmail.com> wrote: > >>But if you want to build an intird with mkinitrd (or --initrd option of > >>make-kpkg), the initrd needs devfs which has been dropped from > >>kernel-2.6.13. > > > > I didn't know that initrd depends on it, but certainly the debian > > installer needs devfs. So that means no recent kernels for the debian > > installer, I guess? I certainly think that this is going to be a > > problem for installing Sarge on modern machines, and an unnecessary > > one too, because devfs was declared dead a long time ago. > > > > Thomas > > Sorry, I'm a bit confused (also new here, so please forgive my > ignorance)... could someone please explain why on the one hand devfs has > (apparently) been dropped, but on the other hand it appears to be required > for installing with initrd on modern machines??? > > What are we supposed to do instead? Is there reasoning behind this, or is > it a mistake of some kind? I am a bit confused myself. I have been building and running initrd kernels for over a year now and have not been using devfs at all. I have been running 2.6.13 from kernel.org since this past weekend. -- John C. Martin - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin * Please be aware that non-encrypted e-mail is NOT a secured communication * vehicle, and that others may in certain circumstances be able to view its * contents. You should encrypt your e-mail. Disclaimers in your e-mail * signature about confidentiality and designated recipients are silly and * useless. * Use my gpg key to ensure privacy - http://www.cs.utk.edu/~jomartin/John.gpg
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