source: boot/common/devices.xml@ a83caf9

Last change on this file since a83caf9 was c1f1c70, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r1112@server (orig r1110): chris | 2006-01-30 11:07:11 -0800
Moved note in boot section about running the rest of the book as root to populating LFS/dev since the devices must be created as root.

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[bf8c11f]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-boot-devices">
9 <?dbhtml filename="devices.html"?>
10
11 <title>Populating ${LFS}/dev</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-boot-devices">
14 <primary sortas="e-${LFS}/dev/*">${LFS}/dev/*</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2>
18 <title>Creating Initial Device Nodes</title>
19
[c1f1c70]20 <note os="a">
21 <para>The commands in the remainder of the book should be run as
22 the<systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user. Also,
23 double-check that $LFS is set as root.</para>
24 </note>
25
26 <para os="b">When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence
[bf8c11f]27 of a few device nodes, in particular the <filename
28 class="devicefile">console</filename> and <filename
29 class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. The device nodes will
30 be created on the hard disk so that they are available before
31 <command>udev</command> has been started, and additionally when Linux
32 is started in single user mode (hence the restrictive permissions on
33 <filename class="devicefile">console</filename>). Create these by running
34 the following commands:</para>
35
36<screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 ${LFS}/dev/console c 5 1
37mknod -m 666 ${LFS}/dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
38
39 </sect2>
40
41</sect1>
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