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On 12/23/10 12:22, Kfir Lavi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi.shishlov@gmail.com
>     Not Gentoo specific and you must have /dev/console. Also /dev/null, /dev/zero
>     and /dev/tty* or many programs will fail.
> 
> I remember that back then we had a script that would run and populate /dev.
> Is it possible to use it just to make things faster for me?

Sure. But you can't start init/pid[1] without /dev/console.
Just put whatever you need in static /dev (in case device hotplug is not required).