On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: > > To correct it, remove /dev/null, and re-create it with: > > > > mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 > > > > I.e a character device, major/minor pair of 1,3, and world-writable. > > > > If udev is running, won't /dev be a temporary filesystem that will > disappear when you reboot?
Yes to this part > It would be best to do this from your host > system and chroot into lfs without mounting /dev > /dev/null *should* be recreated in the temporary fs by the 25-lfs.rules file once udev is running. Maybe Donal's 25-lfs.rules is missing from /etc/udev/rules.d, or maybe he was looking at /mnt/lfs/dev *from* another system. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page