Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From:	Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To:	gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image?
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:23
Message-Id:	`48D7AF0A.2060406@gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image? by Amit Dor-Shifer

1	Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
2	> Sorry. Wrong there. I meant I want /dev/watchdog inside the loop, in the
3	> squashfs image.
4	> Does that change the answer?
5
6	No, it doesn't. The only reason it works on your normal install is because a
7	tmpfs is already mounted on /dev and udev is managing it. In the case of a
8	LiveCD, it doesn't matter what you put in /dev in the squashfs, since it gets
9	"hidden" when the tmpfs is mounted over it at boottime.
10
11	--
12	Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
13	Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] How do I get /dev entries onto a livecd image?	Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@××××××××.org>