One other thing, I am doing a serial install. Thanks...james On 3/15/06, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/15/06, James Olin Oden <james.oden at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3/15/06, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote: > > > You should be enabling sysfs and friends > > > > > Hmmm...Why wouldn't anaconda just do that? I haven't done anything to > > tell it not to, that I know of. I'm reading up on sysfs and udev as > > I type this, but when I do a minimal install, I don't ask for anything > > special and things just work. When I run my kickstart file with a > > hand selected set of packages (which very closely mimick the minimal > > install (depsolvers are great)), I get a different behavior. > > > OK, I've done some more research on my own, and it would appear that a > non-udev /dev/console and /dev/null must exist before udev is started, > because udev is started in "user" land (thus u-dev), and thus before > init starts. So init needs these device files to exist a priori. > > The question that still remains is why are they not showing up with my > custom package set? Who is repsonsible for creating the a priori > /dev/console that init uses, and what would prevent that from > occuring? > > Anyone have any clues they can throw my way? > > Thanks...james > > Cheers...james > > >