Re: Removing devfsd

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:19:30PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>      How can devfsd be removed safely?  I have purged the package,
> cleaned out /dev and reconstructed the device files with `MAKEDEV
> generic', but the partition is then unbootable.  On boot, fsck
> reports: "fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open
> /dev/hda6".
> 
>      To recover, I have booted another partition, mounted hda6 on
>  /mnt, chrooted into hda6 and re-installed devfsd.  This is
>  reproducible - I have done it three times.

Are you still running the same kernel as before?  If so, it's probably
still mounting devfs at boot, and since devfsd isn't around to set up
symlinks /dev/hda6 doesn't exist.

Try passing "devfs=nomount" as a kernel argument when you reboot.  If
that solves the problem add this parameter to lilo.conf or GRUB's
menu.list, or in your loadlin config.

HTH,

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