Changeset a55f0868

Timestamp:

08/12/2005 07:44:32 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 12.2, 12.2-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/loongarch-12.2, xry111/mips64el, xry111/multilib, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

3aee82dd

Parents:

7b303d4

Message:

Expand explanation of device node creation in chapter 6 (fixes bug 1593)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6666 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/devices.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -113 +113 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node
+creation at the start of chapter 6.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for
 expect's installed library (Bug 1608)</para></listitem>

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
@@ -49 +53 @@
 mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9
 chown root:tty /dev/{console,ptmx,tty}</userinput></screen>
-<!-- -->
 
 <para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are created