On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:11:06AM -0800, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 05:56:37PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > > > In latest lfs book, the "Preparing Virtual File Systems" page contains: > > > > > > 6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes > > > > > > When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence of a few > > > device nodes, in particular the console and null devices. The device > > > nodes must be created on the hard disk so that they are available before > > > udevd has been started, and additionally when Linux is started with > > > init=/bin/bash. Create the devices by running the following commands: > > > > > > mknod -m 600 $LFS/dev/console c 5 1 > > > mknod -m 666 $LFS/dev/null c 1 3 > > > > > > > > > > > > These are not necessarry anymore. devtmpfs is a requirement for newer > > > udev versions and is mounted by the kernel before even init has been > > > invoked. > > > > > > > This also might be related that my kernel is built with > > CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y kernel option. Someone please verify before > > taking action, if any. > > My machine does *not* mount devtmpfs automatically; the bootscripts (and > specifically mountkernfs) are required. Which means that init=/bin/bash > won't work without the static files, as the book says. :-) >
Devtmpfs has been in the book, on the kernel page in chapter 8, since LFS-7.1 and I agree with Armin that the newly-installed system doesn't need /dev/console or /dev/null. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
