Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From:	Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi.shishlov@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-embedded] /sbin/init don't work
Date:	Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:05:30
Message-Id:	`4D132E75.8070806@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-embedded] /sbin/init don't work by Kfir Lavi

1	On 12/23/10 12:22, Kfir Lavi wrote:
2	> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Arkadi Shishlov <arkadi.shishlov@×××××.com
3	> Not Gentoo specific and you must have /dev/console. Also /dev/null, /dev/zero
4	> and /dev/tty* or many programs will fail.
5	>
6	> I remember that back then we had a script that would run and populate /dev.
7	> Is it possible to use it just to make things faster for me?
8
9	Sure. But you can't start init/pid[1] without /dev/console.
10	Just put whatever you need in static /dev (in case device hotplug is not required).