I know this is a topic a lot of people are interested in. How to get udev hotplugging working. It's not a simple procedure, but I got it to work on a Sparc so it should work for everyone. First off, you will need to patch the kernel. 2.6.15 is not all the way there, but GregKH has the necessary patches available to make it work. I used http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-all-2.6.15.patch Second, you will need to use udev 079, here is the build instructions you must use to get full functionality. make EXTRAS="extras/firmware extras/scsi_id extras/volume_id extras/ata_id extras/usb_id extras/edd_id extras/dasd_id extras/cdrom_id extras/floppy" udevdir=/dev make EXTRAS="extras/firmware extras/scsi_id extras/volume_id extras/ata_id extras/usb_id extras/edd_id extras/dasd_id extras/cdrom_id extras/floppy" udevdir=/dev install cp extras/path_id /sbin cp extras/eventrecorder.sh /lib/udev rm -rf /etc/udev/rules.d/* Third you will need the udev package that the Cross-LFS team developed. I keep tarballs available on my system for download http://ftp.jg555.com/udev/udev-cross-lfs.tar.bz2 To install this package use make install Then make sure you remove your hotplug script if you have it running in /etc/rc.d/