On most Linux-distros you won't be able to properly boot since the root filesystem ist usually mounted read-only. Remounting it as read-write will fail when /dev/null is not present (at least in SuSE).
So start you system in single user mode, log in as root on the console, do a 'mount -o remount /' an then recreate /dev/null. then you can reboot or use init to go to your preferred runlevel. This bug bit me couple of times when I set up my new Laptop. I never suspected the configure-script and chased the bug for a week. Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For anyone who needs to recover, On my RedHat 8.0 machine /dev/null is a
character device with major mode 1, minor mode 3 and mode a+rw - use mknod
to make a new one. On Solaris, it's a soft link to
/devices/pseudo/mm@0:null - use ln to recreate.
Bill.
-- Michael Abshoff - MRB - Universität Dortmund - Telefon 755-3463 (intern) Where do you want to RTFM today?
