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 1EiFOq-0006bf-Pt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:12:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jB2IBb9W002713; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:11:37 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 jB2I8MZB004539 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:08:22 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EiFKX-0004V2-Vu for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:08:21 +0000 Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 18:08:21 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation Message-ID: <20051202180821.GJ9185@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> <20051202131738.GE9185@toucan.gentoo.org> <20051202170025.GA24674@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: <20051202170025.GA24674@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: bb9889fc-6345-4574-9941-1c852d20da2d X-Archives-Hash: bde9984cfc808782fecd200481220e82 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list