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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:00:25AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.

sure, in Gentoo it's been fixed (i know cause i fixed it), but every
other distro i know of the boot system would bomb

my e-mail was just a follow up because a lot of people think they can
safely nuke /dev and then dont understand why their machines dont boot
-mike
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