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wanderingidea

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From: The Hague, The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-12-24

Posts: 26

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Problem booting after moving from devfs to udev

Hi,

I tried to move from devfs to udev and followed the wiki.
However I encounter the problem that Arch will not boot anymore.
At the point where is says 'activating swap' it fails and I enter maintenance mode where I can move back to devfs.
The same problem occurs with another installation of Arch 7.
All is updated and I tried a few times (which is easy for me because I made images of the Arch partition).
Anyone encountered this problem or any ideas?

Thanks,

Cor

Notze

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From: Germany

Registered: 2004-12-22

Posts: 46

Re: Problem booting after moving from devfs to udev

Hi,

I tried to move from devfs to udev and followed the wiki.
However I encounter the problem that Arch will not boot anymore.
At the point where is says 'activating swap' it fails and I enter maintenance mode where I can move back to devfs.
The same problem occurs with another installation of Arch 7.
All is updated and I tried a few times (which is easy for me because I made images of the Arch partition).
Anyone encountered this problem or any ideas?

Thanks,

Cor

Hi,

i had no problems moving to udev..
but perhaps you have a problem in your /etc/fstab?

Notze

nggalai

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2004-08-01

Posts: 215

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Re: Problem booting after moving from devfs to udev

wanderingidea,

- what does /etc/fstab look like? Did you remove the sysfs line?
- where "is" your swap drive? IDE? SCSI? External USB harddrive?

For the record, switching from devfs to udev was painless for me. Only issue I had was getting my Palm to connect again, but that took all of 5 minutes. No problems on my end.

93,
-Sascha.rb

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wanderingidea

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From: The Hague, The Netherlands

Registered: 2004-12-24

Posts: 26

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Re: Problem booting after moving from devfs to udev

Hi Sascha,

My swap partition is on /dev/sda3 on a serial ata harddisk. Arch Linux is on /dev/sda2 and Win'XP on /dev/sda1.

My fstab is as follows:

#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /proc         proc      defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0
tmpfs                  /tmp          tmpfs     defaults            0      0
#sysfs                  /sys          sysfs     defaults            0      0
usbfs                  /proc/bus/usb usbfs  defaults            0      0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0     /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/floppy/0          /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto,unhide      0      0

/dev/discs/disc0/part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
#-------------------------------------------------------------

Hope you can find anything, udev should function without problems reading all messages regarding it.

Cor