As I moved my data from one disk to another (well actually from a disk
to an md device) I used cp -ax which stays ona given filesystem, and
thus I never get static /dev entries on my new root device.

The only things that seem to be needed by the static boot prior to udev
being started (i.e the only things to cause error) were /dev/console and
/dev/null. So I made these two and the system now boots fine and udev
gets started and in /dev/.static/dev I have console, null, and a named
pipe called initctl.

So my question is... is there anything else that _should_ be in the
static dev filesystem that's needed until udev get's started? udev is
started extraordinarily early in the boot process, so I don't suspect
so, but I thought I'd ask those who know best.

Thanks,
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