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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:32:36PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:23, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:13:01PM +1100, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > > On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:21, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > > > - you need to have at least your root device, /dev/console and
> > > > /dev/null in your static devices, this is definitely true for all 
> > > > older
> > > > systems, but i'm not sure about systems that were installed after our
> > > > devfs on /dev switch (anyone knows if those have a complete static 
> > > > /dev
> > > > under the devfs mount?).
> > > >   basically if you can boot with 'devfs=nomount init=/bin/bash' kernel
> > > >   parameters then you should be able to boot with the udev setup.
> > >
> > > /dev has been completely empty since 0.7.1 ISO, it relies 100% on devfs
> > > mounting at boot.
> > > If this will be a long term problem let me know, I could install a
> > > MAKEDEV script to /dev and populate /dev with static devices during the
> > > installation, or just create the minimal devices needed ?
> >
> > I think the install should create a full static /dev, not everyone wants
> > to use devfs, and udev is probably not yet ready for everyone (last
> > count i've seen of device drivers that aren't sysfs enabled and thus not
> > available to udev is 162).
> > The minimum that's needed for init to work is /dev/console afaik, but it
> > may need some more, i'll probably do some tests.
> 
> could you file a bug for the ISO, with your findings ? So I have something 
> to 
> work from ? I have a lot of work planned and no-one registered in the 
> ISO/cauldron team has responded to any attempts at contact.
> Thanks

Done, http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6104
I just tried, and luckily it seems to be possible to access the normal
/dev that's under the mounted devfs by using a mount --bind, which means
that this brokenness doesn't prevent an automatic conversion, just
produces more work.

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