Hi. I am sorry, but after a fresh install, I still have some troubles with devfsd (let's say that they disappear with devfs=nomount).
Mainly, my ide cdwriter is not usable, X doesn't starts straight and mkinitrd fails. I reboot the system after removing everything in /lib/dev-state. $ grep scsi /etc/modules.conf probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi $ cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/hdb5 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi vga=794 $ dmesg ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX175E2, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX175E2 Rev: S002 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 The box actually says CRX175A2 and it is not sold as a DVD reader. I haven't tried however. $ ll /dev/cdr* lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Feb 13 11:11 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Feb 13 11:11 /dev/cdrom0 -> cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdroms: total 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Dec 31 1969 cdrom0 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd $ ll /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/ total 0 $ /sbin/lsmod <...> ide-scsi 8032 0 scsi_mod 92552 1 [ide-scsi] The cdwriter just disappeared. Now X: I have the two nvidia magic lines in /etc/modules.conf: $ grep nv /etc/modules.conf alias /dev/nvidia NVdriver alias /dev/nvidia* /dev/nvidia But when I use startx, it fails to start the first time. The NVdriver is loaded but no agpgart. Use startx a second time, X starts and lsmod shows the agpgart module. So, trying to play with /etc/modules.conf, I also tried to make a new initrd.img: # mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.17-16mdk.img 2.4.17-16mdk mke2fs 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) mount: could not find any device /dev/loop# Can't get a loopback device Once again, this is a fresh install from two days ago. # rpm -q devfsd devfsd-1.3.23-6mdk I am at lost. I don't see any problem if I boot with devfs=nomount. I am surely missing something obvious, but i cannot find what. =-= kk1
