On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:17:31PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:11:06AM -0800, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 05:56:37PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: > >>> This also might be related that my kernel is built with > >>> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y kernel option. Someone please verify before > >>> taking action, if any. > >> > >> My machine does *not* mount devtmpfs automatically; the bootscripts (and > >> specifically mountkernfs) are required. Which means that init=/bin/bash > >> won't work without the static files, as the book says. :-) > >> > > > > Devtmpfs has been in the book, on the kernel page in chapter 8, > > since LFS-7.1 and I agree with Armin that the newly-installed system > > doesn't need /dev/console or /dev/null.
devtmpfs being enabled (which is what's in chapter 8) does *NOT* mean that devtmpfs will be mounted by the kernel (which is not mentioned in the book at all). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
