Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:17:38PM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

No, all of the /dev/null reliance has been fixed.  You just don't get
any console output if you don't have that device node present until init
finishes.

But I did just check, and I do have 2 device nodes in my /dev/  I'll
work on making things work better if they aren't present...

thanks,

greg k-h
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