maillog: 02/12/2005-02:47:55(+0000): Stephen Bennett types > On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100 > Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in > > the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i > > discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true > > for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. > > > > Is there any reason for this ? > > Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot > the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason.
I don't need a fully populated /dev to get a working shell with init=/bin/bash on the kernel cmdline. And at that point it is easy to run /dev/MAKEDEV and get whatever devices are needed for troubleshooting. I of course assume that if the dynamic /dev management fails, then we need to *recover* instead of trying to get the system up as usual. And I also assume that the init scripts will anyway tell me "fatal error: give root password for maintenance or Ctrl-D to continue" if I have something vital missing from /dev. -- / Georgi Georgiev / Darth Vader sleeps with a Teddywookie. / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \ / http://www.gg3.net/ / / -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
