Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation

[Mike Frysinger]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:45:00PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 02/12/2005-02:47:55(+0000): Stephen Bennett types
> > On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100
> > Matthias Langer <mlangc@×××.at> wrote:
> >
> > > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in
> > > the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i
> > > discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true
> > > for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1.
> > >
> > > Is there any reason for this ?
> >
> > Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot
> > the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason.
>
> I don't need a fully populated /dev to get a working shell with
> init=/bin/bash on the kernel cmdline. And at that point it is easy to
> run /dev/MAKEDEV and get whatever devices are needed for
> troubleshooting.

assuming the user knows what MAKEDEV is let alone how to use it
-mike
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