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On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:00:25AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: |
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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. |
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sure, in Gentoo it's been fixed (i know cause i fixed it), but every |
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other distro i know of the boot system would bomb |
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my e-mail was just a follow up because a lot of people think they can |
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safely nuke /dev and then dont understand why their machines dont boot |
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-mike |
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