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diff --git a/examples/ROOT/mnt/tmpfs/dev/README b/examples/ROOT/mnt/tmpfs/dev/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4489cc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/ROOT/mnt/tmpfs/dev/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +This directory (/mnt/tmpfs/dev on the root filesystem) will +be brutally overriden when the tmpfs is mounted. Its only +purpose is to provide an initial /dev/console to the kernel +when it starts process 1. +The directory should contain a working /dev/console device! + + init-stage1 will close all handles to this /dev/console, +then mount the tmpfs and copy the tmpfs image to the tmpfs +- the image contains a full version of /dev, which will then +be used. + This trick is necessary to have a working read-write /dev +when you have a root-only filesystem and when you cannot or +do not want to rely on fancy Linux-specific tricks such as +devtmpfs. |