Moving to udev

Question

I followed the wiki on setting up udev and ran into an odd problem:
even with the devfs=nomount in my kernel line of menu.lst the first thing I saw after the Arch Linux banner was something about starting DevFS and it failing.  With DevFS failing, I couldn't mount any of my extended partitions (hda5-9)
I've fixed it my editing my rc.sysint to remove the check for DevFS, but I'm guessing that's not the best way to handle the issue.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Okay, I've put rc.sysinit back to the way it was.
I looked for /dev/.devfsd and didn't find it before the reboot.  After the reboot it's there.
crw------- 1 root root 253, 0 1969-12-31 19:00 /dev/.devfsd
I've checked my fstab for the /boot partition, here it is:
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
here's my kernel line from menu.lst:
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 devfs=nomount ro vga=773
and here's the start of the output of the dmesg | grep -i dev command:
[root@sf-game ~]# dmesg | grep -i dev
Kernel command line: root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 devfs=nomount ro vga=773
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([email protected])
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
There are no further references to devfs, just a bunch of hits various devices.
I'm going to try deleting that /dev/.devfsd file now and see what happens.