Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:09:26AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:Hey everyone, OK, I think I'm making some progress. I reckon there were two kinds of problems in my case: 1) usb not working: the newer 2.6 kernels seem to need to have the usb modules (hid, uhci, ehci, etc) explicitly declared ("staticallylinked"?) in /etc/modules.
2) hotplug/udev not working: when udev and hotplug packages are installed, devices of the type /dev/[h|s]d[a|b|c...][1-9] are not automatically generated; when the kernel tries to mount my non-root partitions after udev has been activated, it fails and dumps me into single-user mode. From there I can /etc/init.d/udev stop, andcontinue with the boot...I didn't know you were using udev (the web-posted config doesn't show that) - I've had much trouble with devfs and udev myself, so my first advice would've been to switch back to a "static" /dev. ;-) Sadly I don't know enough about udev's internals to diagnose your or my problem there...
thanks Jan for all my help, but everything seems to be working now -- and udev actually is a major help for me, since it means that my firwire disk, usb pen drive, and digital camera can now be plugged in in any order I want without messing up my fstab entries...
but I think my problem actually had very little to do with the kernel,and maybe I didn't even have to list all those modules in /etc/modules. Instead, I had to modify two linesi n my /etc/fstab:
I had previously: none /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0under 2.4 kernels without devfs I guess the first one didn't matter and the second one worked fine. in newer 2.6 kernels using hotplug the "noauto" option in /sys was fatal and the usbdevfs no longer worked, so I had to change these to:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0suddenly everything works! Now I just need to figure out a way to use udev to trigger complex events like, e.g., seeing my camera, notifying me in x that it's been mounted, transfering all the pictures, and opening up a photo browser... but hopefully osmeone's already done that for me?
thanks again jan, mattps now that udev actually works I highly recommend it. the rules system makes sense once you start playing around with it.
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