better handling of mdev and udev

[startuptools] / scripts / rc.sysinit

diff --git a/scripts/rc.sysinit b/scripts/rc.sysinit
index 0751a6ee1a51411f871c570abecc94b345280a8f..1ecc8522de54a23dfd51a0a796c14b2fd09fa6d0 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/rc.sysinit
+++ b/scripts/rc.sysinit
@@ -61,16 +61,29 @@ status_begin loading sysctl.conf
 sysctl -q -p
 status_check
 
-# * set up /dev
+# * fsck and mount filesystems
 
-if [ -x /sbin/mdev ] && [ ! is_true "$USE_UDEVD" ]; then
+#status_starting fsck of /
+#mount -o remount,ro /
+#fsck -A -T
+# TODO actually check the return value
+status_begin remounting root filesystem rw
+mount -o remount,rw /
+status_check
+
+# set up /dev
+
+if [ -x /sbin/mdev ] && ! is_true "$USE_UDEV" ; then
+       status_starting setting up mdev
+       echo > /dev/mdev.seq
        echo /sbin/mdev > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
+       /sbin/mdev -s
+       status_check
 elif [ -x /sbin/udevd ]; then
        ##
        ## begin voodoo scripting from lfs-initscripts
        ##
 
-
        # udev will handle hotplugs
        echo > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
 
@@ -111,15 +124,6 @@ fi
 
 swapon -a
 
-# * fsck and mount filesystems
-
-#status_starting fsck of /
-#mount -o remount,ro /
-#fsck -A -T
-# TODO actually check the return value
-status_begin remounting root filesystem rw
-mount -o remount,rw /
-status_check
 
 # mount any remaining filesystems
 status_begin mounting remaining filesystems