From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EiArF-0001Ws-GD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:21:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB2DKttg014293; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:20:55 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jB2DHcaV029129 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:17:38 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EiAnC-0007B8-5O for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:17:38 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:17:38 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation Message-ID: <20051202131738.GE9185@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <1133490923.15611.31.camel@sputnik886.ruz-net> <20051202024755.0203586d@localhost> <20051202034459.GB2550@ols-dell.iic.hokudai.ac.jp> <20051202044331.GA5732@kroah.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051202044331.GA5732@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 357e5d20-052f-448c-a48e-bc994a3af51d X-Archives-Hash: d5f9471f78525fc542656d785b0a2fe1 On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:43:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > That being said, my boxes have an empty /dev... you so sure about that ? if your /dev is completely empty, you wont get any init output because the kernel cant find /dev/console ... and the init scripts will get pissed when they try to pipe output into /dev/null (before udev is started) and the command errors out with /dev being read-only -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list