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Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW



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).



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