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Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW



On Sunday 31 July 2005 03:00, Goswin von Brederlow 
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > 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?

Without hacking the init scripts it is impossible to have a kernel without 
devfs support booting with root on LVM.

Currently this is merely really annoying as devfs support is available, soon 
it will become critical.



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