On Tuesday 01 March 2005 23:32, Nori, Soma Sekhar wrote: > > Should ramfs be the filesystem for /dev in case devfs is not used? > If yes, how can I get this configured? > > I have the udev and hotplug programs loaded into the cramfs image, > but frankly I cant see how they come into the picture till the root > device is mounted successfully. When init starts /dev/console, /dev/zero (and maybe /dev/null) need to already exist. So using devfs for /dev would be difficult especially since you don't want an initrd. If you don't want root writeable right away you could try something like this... Have a minimal /dev (real disk FS) with above nodes. mount -t tmpfs /udev (or some other memory-bases FS) udevstart (should be configured to use /udev) mount --bind /udev /dev -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
