source: BOOK/boot/common/devices.xml@ 57413c8

clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit sysvinit
Last change on this file since 57413c8 was 1028eb8, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 11 years ago

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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[aa18ac0]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[3f8be484]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-boot-devices">
9 <?dbhtml filename="devices.html"?>
10
[91ad4a4]11 <title>Populating /dev</title>
[3f8be484]12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-boot-devices">
[91ad4a4]14 <primary sortas="e-/dev/*">/dev/*</primary>
[1028eb8]15 <secondary>boot</secondary>
[3f8be484]16 </indexterm>
17
18 <sect2>
19 <title>Creating Initial Device Nodes</title>
20
[bf3dcb3f]21 <para os="b">When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence
[3f8be484]22 of a few device nodes, in particular the <filename
23 class="devicefile">console</filename> and <filename
24 class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. The device nodes will
25 be created on the hard disk so that they are available before
26 <command>udev</command> has been started, and additionally when Linux
27 is started in single user mode (hence the restrictive permissions on
28 <filename class="devicefile">console</filename>). Create these by running
29 the following commands:</para>
30
[2572b8e]31<screen><userinput>mknod -m 0600 ${CLFS}/dev/console c 5 1
[3471ff2]32mknod -m 0666 ${CLFS}/dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
[ef7cdfb]33
[3f8be484]34 </sect2>
35
36</sect1>
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