Bug#360893: udev takes too long to create /dev/hda... and system drops to a shell

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:39:56PM +0200, Nicola Manini wrote:
<snipp>
> >are you using grub?
> 
> Yes:
> ii  grub           0.95+cvs200406 GRand Unified Bootloader
> I have these 2 main entries in menu.lst:
<snipp sane grub menu.lst>
 
> The kernel 2.6.8-2-686 cannot use the current udev but boots fine,
> except that X does not start, since it finds no mouse.
sure there you would need to load mousedev by hand or have
it listed in /etc/modules..

> >which version of initramfs-tools do you use?
> >aka output of:
> >dpkg -l initramfs-tools
> 
> ii  initramfs-tool 0.53c          tools for generating an initramfs

please try out the unstable initramfs-tools version 0.59b


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maks