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

Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11T12:03:04Z

On Oct 11, 2004, at 12:29, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Monday 11 of October 2004 11:14, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
>> 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".
> ... and it ignores root= kernel cmdline option. rootfs is hardcoded in
> initrd
> which is very ugly.

I haven't seen any hardcoded root filesystem reference in the INITRD
image. Instead, I see "/dev/root" which is supposed to be exactly the
root filesystem passed to the kernel via "root=".