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From:  Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: No /dev entries in recent stage3 snapshots?
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:48:48 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Freitag 23 Januar 2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2009-01-23, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >>> If the tarball doesn't contain /dev/console it is broken, but
>> >>> it is also broken if it contains thousands of device entries.
>> >
>> > I have a server running that hets that null/console missing message every
>> > boot - and it does not hurt it at any way.
>>
>> You are still able to see the output from all the init scripts?
>
> yes

That's interesting, because on my systems, if /dev/console is
missing, then there is no non-kernel console output until most
of the way through the startup-process when udev starts.

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