Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 01:15, Hacksaw wrote:

> > The very first thing init does is open /dev/console, and if it doesn't
> > exist the entire boot hangs.
>
> This raises a question: Would it be a useful thing to make a modified 
> init
> that could run udev before it does anything else?

FC3t2 boots from an "initrd" image that, among other things, mounts a 
tmpfs over "/dev" and creates "console", "null", "pts" and then 
proceeds to load "init".

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