Re: ENOENT creating /dev/root on MTD RAM partition

[John Williams]

Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, John Williams wrote:
>
> > Any comments or suggestions on a possible cause or approach to track it
> > down would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Just a guess:
> Check if '/dev' exists. I think it is now possible to not add the built-in
> cpio archive with the mandatory /dev, /dev/console and /root entries.

Thanks Olaf - you got me on the right track.  Turned out to be an arch 
link script error whereby the "rootfs" initcalls were not placed in the 
initcall table - thus the init ramfs wasn't yet mounted, and /dev wasn't 
there.

Cheers,

John
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