From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux; X11; en_US, en_US.UTF-8, en) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: After installing mkinitrd and making a new image I restarted the system, which resulted in a blank screen: 1. initrd image was twice the size of the original 2. devices like /dev/null (/dev/input/mice etc.) were missing. It seems to me like we need a /etc/sysconfig/udev file which defines the stuff for udev usage. If this does not exist (which currently does not) then udev should not be used. FYI Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-4.1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install mkinitrd-4.1..1 2.rebuild image 3.reboot Additional info:
All of the udev stuff is defined in /etc/udev/udev.conf -- having duplication of this and /etc/sysconfig/udev was fairly annoying. What are the contents of your /etc/udev/udev.conf? Also, if you remove quiet and/or rhgb from your command line arguments, do you get a better idea of where it fails?
Hmmm.... the new initscripts (64-1) looks for /etc/sysconfig/udev for checking to start udev! But udev is started without this anyway. I have not altered the /etc/udev/udev.conf file. I am attaching my udev.conf file. I am also attaching the part of system log file for the failing boot that shows bunch of error messages related to udev.
Created attachment 102923 [details] system log messages
Created attachment 102924 [details] /etc/udev/udev.conf file
initscripts wasn't looking at the right file to know what to do about udev. Should be happier with initscripts-7.65-1