On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote First a disclaimer... I am not a C programmer, let alone a developer. I feel like I've been dragged into this kicking and screaming in order to save the Gentoo that I remember from a few years ago.
> Out of curiosity, since mdev is (i assume) more than complete enough > to handle mounting, would it be possible to initially start with mdev > and then hand over control to udev (if there was a need for udev, that > is) , to avoid initramfs with separate /usr ? I think that's exactly how initramfs itself works. You might be able to use an initrd instead of initramfs. See Zac Medico's posting at... http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_20749880f5bc5feda141488498729fe8.xml That was the clue that got me started on replacing udev with mdev. Once you have psuedo-filesystems and partitions mounted, you need to shut down mdev and start up udev. And make sure that /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug points to udev. If you want to get fancy, you can boot from a separate small boot partition, or for that matter a USB key. Then either chroot or pivot_root into the udev environment. For pivot_root man pages see http://linux.die.net/man/8/pivot_root and http://linux.die.net/man/2/pivot_root -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
