On 2/18/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alternatively, what purpose does populating /dev do at this stage? Does > something we build later on actually require devices in there that we > haven't yet got available to us?
Hi Matt, Glad to hear some news on the udev branch. Anyway, I don't think populating /dev after udev has any real benefits. When I was doing the ICA builds, I was never running the udevstart command, and I never had any issues. The only place I could see them being needed is potentially for running the grub shell in Ch. 8.4. The first time grub is run it scans your system for potential drives and creates /boot/grub/device.map. I'm not sure about this, but it might need to have the corresponding device nodes in /dev to find, e.g, hda. I'd have to test that, though. Maybe someone else knows. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
