From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>, Hacksaw <hacksaw@hacksaw.org>
Subject: Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:13:58 +0300
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On Monday 11 October 2004 02:25, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 
> On 2004.10.11, 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?
> 
> I don't think it is needed. There is no problem (i am thinking on rootles
> nodes and PXE and so on...) on building a simple initrd with /dev/console,
> /dev/null and half a dozen standard devices if they are needed. Just
> to get udev run and have your real devices mounted there and overwrite
> them.
> 
> I just remember one other oddity. To clean up my system, I copied the
> running /dev to /dev-new, moved /dev to /dev-old and /dev-new to /dev.
> But on 'reboot', I got a complaint about /dev/initctl not opening.
> This could happen also with init. It opens real /dev/initctl on boot,
> mounts /dev and tries to use new /dev/inittclt on shutdown...

What /dev/initctl? Why do you have a pipe in a directory
which supposed to have device nodes only?

Get better init.
--
vda

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