Re: HOWTO use udev to manage /dev

From: Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 17:31:22 EST


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem to work if you
> don't have /dev/null before it gets mounted.
>
> I got
>
> Creating initial udev device nodes:
> /etc/rc.d/start_udev: line 90: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: No such file or directory.
>
> and it didn't boot.
>
> My first rc.S lines have:
>
> mount -vn -t proc proc /proc # Needed for LABEL= in /etc/fstab
>
> mount -vn -t sysfs sysfs /sys
>
> /etc/rc.d/start_udev

Sorry, forgot to mention that line 90 is
$udevd &

since I added a
mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0

just before
run_udev

Is it the right procedure until udev created the frame buffer
devices ?

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