On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:22:18AM -0500, Marty wrote:
>Marc Wilson wrote:
>>On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:38:24PM -0500, Marty wrote:
>>>Marc Wilson wrote:
>>>>On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Marty wrote:
>>>>>Good point, although only /dev/console seems to be required by my
>>>>>Sarge systems.
>>>>
>>>>I'm sure it'd be entertaining to watch your machine trying to boot
>>>>without any of its mass-storage devices.
>>>udev handles that.
>>No, udev does NOT handle that, unless you have some magical way of
>>loading udev from a non-existent device node so that you can get the
>>device node created so that you can load udev from it.
>>Minor chicken-and-egg problem there, huh? Believe it when I tell you
>>that your machine needs more than just /dev/console in order to boot.
>
>Not true.
So how does it work?
In my naive mind there would be some initial devices on the initial
ramdisk, then at some point things are switched over to my /dev on HD. I
just don't know exactly when udev steps in.
Any pointers to where I can find out?
/M
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