Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Colin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> So, when I boot up from my freshly-completed CLFS Embedded x86 build
>> (yeah, it's been a while since I worked on it), I see messages on the
>> screen that inform me that the hwclock died because the RTC doesn't
>> exist (file not found) and that /dev/null doesn't exist, either. I never
>> get a prompt, so I can safely assume that /dev/console can't be found,
>> either.
>>
>
> Sounds like an issue with udev. It should be creating these devices at
> boot. Is udevd running? What happens when the udev init script is run?
>
>
>> However, when I log into my build environment, I can clearly see
>> $CLFS/dev/null and $CLFS/dev/console and their permissions are set
>> correctly and appear to be fine.
>>
>
> During boot, though, a tmpfs is mounted over /dev and populated by
> udev. So, you won't see those devices unles you umounted the tmpfs.
>
I'm guessing that if you didn't install the udev rules console and null
won't be created in /lib/udev/devices. If it's not there then I don't
think it will be in /dev after the tmpfs is mounted. Also, if you
install the udev rules as a user other then root those 2 files won't be
created either.
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