Shane,

We use devfs for the device nodes.  It is a separate virtual
filesystem that gets mounted on /dev and that is probably
hiding whatever was there.  The device nodes should automatically
pop into existence when the modules are loaded. 

Jim McQuillan
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Shane Kennedy wrote:

> In trying to get a better understanding of the whole netboot procedure, 
> I am trying to boot, then mount from a directory other than opt/ltsp/i386.
> I have created a directory with nfsrootinit, and edited its fstab etc.
> After pivot_root, i get
> /usr/bin  no such file or directory..... but the client continues to 
> boot, and appears to work OK.
> 
> However, it loses most of its intended /dev directory, importantly, 
> mouse, and ttyS0.  In fact ALL the ttyS** devices have dissappeared when 
> I look at the /dev directory from the client.  Everything is still there 
> when I look from the server side.
> Client should mount /tftboot/pax1 as its root.
> 
> I notice that it starts "device management daemon for /dev
> just after /sbin/init
> Any insight will be welcome.
> 
> Shane
> 
> 
> 
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