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    SubjectRe: Development tree, PLEASE?
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    On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:06, Michael Loftis wrote:
    > --On January 20, 2006 5:35:51 PM +0100 Marc Koschewski
    > <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote:
    >> Moreover, as far as I remember... my devfsd -> udev transsition
    >> went as smooth as a reboot.
    >
    > The one machine I've got running 2.6+devfs under debian chokes in
    > initrd with an inability to find devfs during boot so I had to go
    > back to static /dev entries for it since atleast in sarge right now
    > I'm not seeing a quick-and-easy way to get devfs like support
    > bundled via mkinitrd, but I haven't looked, and I shouldn't have to.

    Guess what, you _don't_ have to. I have no less than 4 different 2.6
    debian boxes here, all booting the fully modular stock Debian kernels
    from software RAID on SATA or PATA (depends on the box). Not only
    that, but I can shut down and rearrange those drives to different IDE/
    SATA ports, then boot and it all still works with consistent /dev
    names (With the exception that I have to bump yaboot into booting
    from a different OpenFirmware path). If you've customized and
    hardcoded a lot of the boot scripts, I can understand why things
    might be breaking, but the default initrds that the Debian tools
    generate work just fine for me.

    Cheers,
    Kyle Moffett

    --
    There is no way to make Linux robust with unreliable memory
    subsystems, sorry. It would be like trying to make a human more
    robust with an unreliable O2 supply. Memory just has to work.
    -- Andi Kleen


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