problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Joel Hammer]

Do you think that devfs is the reason why when I reboot my hosed computer
with Knoppix, and chroot and run lilo, I get a device not found error? The
devices don't exist? If this is so, that would be a good reason to dump
devfs pronto.

Joel

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:04:46PM -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> devfs handles anything you've got a driver loaded for.  I dunno, I kinda like 
> it, but it depends on your usage pattern.  You may be able to copy the 
> devices from a remote machine, but if there's just one or two missing (try 
> turning off devfs and see what happens, making sure you've got a backup 
> kernel with it on to boot from in case all is not well) you can use the mknod 
> command or the MAKEDEV script to fix it up.  devfs can be turned on or off at 
> kernel load-time with a parameter to the kernel in grub or lilo, so you 
> really don't need to recompile, just turn it off.
> 
> On Tuesday 22 April 2003 14:27, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > Could you just copy all the stuff from  /dev on another computer to the
> > new computer?
> >
> > Does devfs handle all devices, like hda1, or just a few esoteric ones?
> > Is there some good documentation for devfs intelligble to people who
> > aren't computer professionals?
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > > I'm by no means a devfs expert (i prefer not to use it), but i think you
> > > can safely turn it off in the kernel, but you'd have to manually create
> > > all the needed entries under /dev to replace the dynamic ones that devfs
> > > creates.