On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:45:00PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > maillog: 02/12/2005-02:47:55(+0000): Stephen Bennett types > > On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:35:23 +0100 > > Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > revealed that there are in fact hundrets of premade device nodes in > > > the /dev directory. And this is not only true for the box where i > > > discovered this, which was brought up from a 2004.x cd, but also true > > > for the box where i just installed gentoo from 2005.1-r1. > > > > > > Is there any reason for this ? > > > > Not all systems use udev or devfs. Plus, it's nice to be able to boot > > the system when your dynamic /dev management fails for whatever reason. > > I don't need a fully populated /dev to get a working shell with > init=/bin/bash on the kernel cmdline. And at that point it is easy to > run /dev/MAKEDEV and get whatever devices are needed for > troubleshooting.
assuming the user knows what MAKEDEV is let alone how to use it -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
