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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:17:38PM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:43:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: |
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> > That being said, my boxes have an empty /dev... |
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> you so sure about that ? if your /dev is completely empty, you wont |
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> get any init output because the kernel cant find /dev/console ... and |
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> the init scripts will get pissed when they try to pipe output into |
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> /dev/null (before udev is started) and the command errors out with |
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> /dev being read-only |
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No, all of the /dev/null reliance has been fixed. You just don't get |
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any console output if you don't have that device node present until init |
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finishes. |
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But I did just check, and I do have 2 device nodes in my /dev/ I'll |
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work on making things work better if they aren't present... |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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