Changeset 241bb14 for chapter06/devices.xml

Timestamp:

10/23/2005 10:36:22 AM (19 years ago)

Author:

Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@…>

Branches:

6.1.1

Children:

218232b

Parents:

7d0b6d3

Message:

Redaction changes ported from trunk.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1.1/BOOK@7072 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/devices.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/devices.xml

@@ -15 +15 @@
 <para>When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence of a few device
 nodes, in particular the <filename class="devicefile">console</filename> and
-<filename class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. Create these by
-running the following commands:</para>
+<filename class="devicefile">null</filename> devices.  The device nodes will
+be created on the hard disk so that they are available before
+<command>udev</command> has been started, and additionally when Linux is started
+in single user mode (hence the restrictive permissions on
+<filename class="devicefile">console</filename>).  Create the devices by running
+the following commands:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 /dev/console c 5 1