Re: How do you boot using udev

From: Joe Pfeiffer (pfeiffer_at_cs.nmsu.edu)
Date: 10/11/04

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    Richard <rkishore@att.net> writes:
    >
    > Alright I found a solution for the problem, I had to create
    > /dev/console and /dev/null manually using the mknod command. However
    > after the kernel finish booting, there isn't any other files in the
    > /dev/ directory and udev doesn't seem to create any files in in /dev
    > directory so I can't mount my root drive. Isn't udev was suppose to
    > automatically create files in the /dev directory?

    The system needs a bit more complete "skeleton" than that to be able
    to get udev up in the first place. You need to also have the mount
    point for the root file system in there for udev to be able to start. 

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