Ahhh. Makes sense. thanx
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:45 PM, John Harrigan <[email protected]> wrote: > * [email protected] (Dec 28, 2010 @ 13:23-0500): >> In section 6.2.1 we create a couple of device nodes: a console device, >> and a null device. >> >> Then in the following section we mount /dev of the host platform to be >> mirrored at $LFS/dev. >> >> What's the point of creating the 2 devices in section 6.2.1 if the >> devices will appear anyways in the mirrored device folder? > > The point is to have those 2 devices exist as part of the root filesystem > so that they are available during early boot before things like udev > can be started. Creating those 2 devices is preparing you for booting > the new system, not so much for building the new system. > > For one of my builds, I forgot to create the console device. The end > result was that I didn't get stdout messages during the boot process > because there was no console device when the process started. Once > udev was started, I could get stdout messages from later processes > but I was missing output from the boot process itself. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
