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

Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-10-11T09:15:31Z

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".