system stucks in run_init_process

Rahul Bedarkar rpal143 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 01:48:34 EDT 2012


Thanks Mulyadi Santosa !

But it (devtmpfs) is maintaining default devices, I have static
devices to be created in CPIO root file system whose path is given in
INITRAMFS SOURCE. So  devtmpfs is overriding my static devices. Any
ways I could use my static entries at /dev ?

Thanks,
Rahul B.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Rahul Bedarkar <rpal143 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have disabled CONFIG_DEVTMPFS in kernel config and system stucks in
>> run_init_process call which is called after freeing initmem. Any idea
>> why this is happening. If devtmpfs is enabled, it runs normally. I am
>> using 3.3.2 kernel.
>
> A bit googling shows this:
> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DEVTMPFS.html
>
> it seems that devtmpfs is a new way to create /dev
> entries....therefore, without it, boot will fail. That's the best I
> can conclude from the passage in the URL
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi Santosa
> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>
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