Changes in BOOK/boot/common/devices.xml [1028eb8:6243b1f]

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BOOK/boot/common/devices.xml

@@ -13 +13 @@
   <indexterm zone="ch-boot-devices">
     <primary sortas="e-/dev/*">/dev/*</primary>
-    <secondary>boot</secondary>
   </indexterm>
 
   <sect2>
     <title>Creating Initial Device Nodes</title>
+
+    <note os="a">
+      <para>The commands in the remainder of the book should be run as
+      the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user. Check 
+      that ${CLFS} is set in the 
+      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user&rsquo;s environment
+       before proceeding.</para>
+    </note>
 
     <para os="b">When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence
@@ -29 +36 @@
     the following commands:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mknod -m 0600 ${CLFS}/dev/console c 5 1
-mknod -m 0666 ${CLFS}/dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 ${CLFS}/dev/console c 5 1
+mknod -m 666 ${CLFS}/dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Before udev starts, a tmpfs filesystem is mounted over
+    <filename class="directory">/dev</filename> and the previous entries are
+    no longer available. The following command creates files that are copied
+    over by the udev bootscript:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 ${CLFS}/lib/udev/devices/console c 5 1
+mknod -m 666 ${CLFS}/lib/udev/devices/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>