Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:25:46 +0000 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ? |
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On 2004.10.11, Hacksaw wrote: > >The very first thing init does is open /dev/console, and if it doesn't > >exist the entire boot hangs. > > This raises a question: Would it be a useful thing to make a modified init > that could run udev before it does anything else?
I don't think it is needed. There is no problem (i am thinking on rootles nodes and PXE and so on...) on building a simple initrd with /dev/console, /dev/null and half a dozen standard devices if they are needed. Just to get udev run and have your real devices mounted there and overwrite them.
I just remember one other oddity. To clean up my system, I copied the running /dev to /dev-new, moved /dev to /dev-old and /dev-new to /dev. But on 'reboot', I got a complaint about /dev/initctl not opening. This could happen also with init. It opens real /dev/initctl on boot, mounts /dev and tries to use new /dev/inittclt on shutdown...
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