E. M. J. Vaessen writes:
> I experience problems in trying to make devfs work.
> I have a very ordinary PC on which SuSE Linux 8.0 is installed, kernel
> 2.4.18-4GB.
> Following very closely the instructions written down in a few articles by
> Daniel Robbins (Advanced filesystems implementors guide,
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs4.html) I changed the
> kernel to make it support devfs. So in file .config the options
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y, CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y, CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=n,
> CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG=n, and CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=n were used.
>
> The next line in /etc/fstab I commented out:
>
> #devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
>
>
> After booting, a few things happened that I don't understand.
>
> In file /var/log/kdm.log the following lines were present that suggest
> things were not quite all right:
>
> /sbin/init: devfsd: command not found
> Usage: init.system 0123456SsQqAaBbCcUu
> fs type devfs not supported by kernel
>
>
> In directory /dev, the entry .devfs was not present.
> That program devfsd could not be found is surprising, because simply typing
> this command showed it was present (in /sbin to be exact).
>
> In /var/log/boot.msg I found the following lines that suggest that devfs was
> enabled somehow:
>
> devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> devfs: boot_options: 0x0
>
> Before I try to go any further and start to edit boot scripts to
> mount devfs (in fact I tried that once but I was left with a system
> in which only the proc filesystem and a read-only / were mounted), I
> would like to know what is going on here. Are the messages above
> somehow familiar to anyone? I went through many internet pages to
> find out more about this but so far without result.
Please read the devfs FAQ. It has a question&answer section.
Regards,
Richard....
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