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

Michael Thonke
2004-10-10T22:41:12Z

A couple questions:

- Is it possible to boot with an empty /dev, until udev builds it ?

No, it isn't as far as I know.

- If this is not the case, which are the minimal nodes that should be
present ?
/dev/null and /dev/console is needed to boot into the envoirment

- For any answer to previous question, shouldn't the distro set up minimal
/dev (empty or with a few nodes) and _delete_ the old /dev tree ?

At least I could do so, but at the moment /dev are also elemental for some distros..I have moved with gentoo and have had no problems along x86 32bit
but x86_64 driving me creazy

I you want more to know have a look at decibiles udev primer
Greets Michael