Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ? | Date | Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:58 +0300 |
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On Monday 11 October 2004 02:25, J.A. Magallon wrote: > > 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...
What /dev/initctl? Why do you have a pipe in a directory which supposed to have device nodes only?
Get better init. -- vda
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