On Sunday 13 February 2005 20:37, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > This is possibly because you upgraded instead of installing. You are > > still using devfs instead of udev. > > > > To fix it. > > Install udev > > Edit /etc/lilo.conf and in each stanza in the 'append' line change the > > devfs option to 'devfs=nomount' > > > > Then run 'lilo -v' to rewrite your boot sector. > > Then reboot. > > During the boot sequence you should see a message about using udev. > > > > Thats it! Your log in should now be much faster. > > Hey, Derek ... I've also done as you suggest above in switching to udev, > but at boot I'm getting a lot of error messages reading: > open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory > > Is there something else that must be tweaked? I've changed each instance > of devfs=mount to devfs=nomount, have run lilo -v, and have checked in > services running, where devfs is shown as not running, not to start at boot > and udev is shown as running, to start at boot ... > > What am I missing here? Log-in is now lightning fast in comparison, of > course, but still a long string of those errors during both boot and > shutdown. ...?
/dev/fb0 is the video frame buffer. That node is present on my system, but for some reason it is not being created on yours. Are you up to date with your updates? Maybe it would help if you created it manually. Try putting mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 at the end of /etc/rc.local derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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