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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:21:50
Message-Id: 20051202131738.GE9185@toucan.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] contents of /dev after initial installation by Greg KH
1 On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:43:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
2 > That being said, my boxes have an empty /dev...
3
4 you so sure about that ? if your /dev is completely empty, you wont
5 get any init output because the kernel cant find /dev/console ... and
6 the init scripts will get pissed when they try to pipe output into
7 /dev/null (before udev is started) and the command errors out with
8 /dev being read-only
9 -mike
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