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Bug#275800: marked as done (initrd-tools: raidstart fails with devfs=mount)

Your message dated Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:44:01 +0200
with message-id <20060723214401.GD6304@nancy>
and subject line Bug#275800: initrd-tools: raidstart fails with devfs=mount
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Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.74
Severity: normal

When a kernel is booted with devfs=mount, raidstart fails with "no MD
device file in /dev.".

I have built an initrd with busybox and looked at /dev in the initrd.
Of course the /dev in the initrd has been obscured by devfs. But there
is now the /dev/md directory, just like under /devfs/md. I don't
understand why raidstart can't cope with /dev/md/0.

But I certainly lack understanding of the underlying mechanisms.

BTW, the README.Debian in the devfsd package recommends adding
defvs=mount to lilo.conf. I did so, and this bugreport is the result.
I did not want to file a bug against this because I don't really
understand how this all *should* work together.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-lpc.5.k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.5-1.1    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-6      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.5.1-3    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  util-linux                    2.12-10    Miscellaneous system utilities

-- no debconf information

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devfs is removed upstream and deactivated since long in linux-2.6.

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, maximilian attems wrote:

> anyway poking around with devfsd and devfs is not recommended,
> they'll be removed soon.
> 
> btw udev is a much nicer toy.
> sorry about the late reply but initrd-tools hasn't had too much care
> lately as it will also be replaced by initramfs.
> 
> --
> maks

check out initramfs-tools on your testing/unstable box.

best regards

-- 
maks

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