On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:00:25AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:17:38PM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:43:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > That being said, my boxes have an empty /dev... > > > > you so sure about that ? if your /dev is completely empty, you wont > > get any init output because the kernel cant find /dev/console ... and > > the init scripts will get pissed when they try to pipe output into > > /dev/null (before udev is started) and the command errors out with > > /dev being read-only > > No, all of the /dev/null reliance has been fixed.
sure, in Gentoo it's been fixed (i know cause i fixed it), but every other distro i know of the boot system would bomb my e-mail was just a follow up because a lot of people think they can safely nuke /dev and then dont understand why their machines dont boot -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
