Re: Development tree, PLEASE?

[Diego Calleja]

El Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:06:50 -0700,
Michael Loftis <mloftis@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> 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 

Were you using a debian-provided kernel? 

> quick-and-easy way to get devfs like support bundled via mkinitrd, but I 
> haven't looked, and I shouldn't have to.  It shouldn't have gone away in a 

Have you updated other packages in your system? If you update the kernel, 
you should update the rest of the kernel-related userspace tools (mkinitrd 
is hardly "yet another userspace application"). Debian default kernel
is 2.4 and only provides a 2.6.8-based kernel (2.6.8 was released in august
2004, 17 months ago) as an alternative, and the debian guys put this
in the release notes:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6

"[...] Upgrading to a 2.6 kernel from an earlier version is therefore
not a process to be undertaken lightly" and "5.2.4 Switching to 2.6 may
activate udev"
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