Does udev make system unbootable?

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 02:39:44PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> Since the kernel.org kernels do not yet have udev support available as 
> a compile time option,

The same applies to kernels from your test installations.  There
is no "udev kernel support".  All of that is in a user space.
You have to load that early and it is using various information
from a kernel but this is something else.

OTOH you better configure CONFIG_TMPFS=y or you will have distinct
troubles mounting your /dev.

Also 'mkinitrd' has '--noudev' switch.  Not documented but it works
if you really need it. :-)  No guarantees, of course, that it will
stay there for the future but you may always edit
/etc/udev/udev.conf and put there USE_UDEV="no".

   Michal