On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:45:00 +0900 Georgi Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Still more effort than booting into a system that is pretty much fully-functional already to fix it. > 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. See above. And that still doesn't address the issue that some people don't even want dynamic device management in the first place. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
