Re: udev: what's up with old /dev ?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Oct 11, 2004, at 12:29, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> On Monday 11 of October 2004 11:14, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > On Oct 11, 2004, at 01:15, Hacksaw wrote:
> > > > The very first thing init does is open /dev/console, and if it 
> > > > doesn't
> > > > exist the entire boot hangs.
> > >
> > > This raises a question: Would it be a useful thing to make a modified
> > > init
> > > that could run udev before it does anything else?
> >
> > FC3t2 boots from an "initrd" image that, among other things, mounts a
> > tmpfs over "/dev" and creates "console", "null", "pts" and then
> > proceeds to load "init".
> ... and it ignores root= kernel cmdline option. rootfs is hardcoded in 
> initrd
> which is very ugly.

I haven't seen any hardcoded root filesystem reference in the INITRD 
image. Instead, I see "/dev/root" which is supposed to be exactly the 
root filesystem passed to the kernel via "root=".

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