Matthew Burgess wrote:

> Alternatively, what purpose does populating /dev do at this stage?

Instead of populating /dev why not just bind /dev to $LFS/dev.
mount -o bind /dev $LFS/dev

> Does something we build later on actually require devices in there
> that we haven't yet got available to us?

Grub requires the nodes for your hard drive to install the mbr and I
know some packages in blfs that I would normaly install in the chroot
require /dev/urandom. It might be openssh.

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