Changeset e324066

Timestamp:

03/31/2006 04:51:06 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Children:

0b528e48

Parents:

10c176b

Message:

Populate /dev/ sufficiently for grub.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/udev_update/BOOK@7484 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter08/grub.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• general.ent (modified) (1 diff)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -36 +36 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>March 31, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Add Alexander's command to sufficiently populate  
+          /dev now that udevstart has gone.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>

chapter08/grub.xml

@@ -22 +22 @@
   other architectures should be available in the usual resource-specific
   locations for those architectures.</para>
+
+  <para>Normally, we can rely on Udev to create all the necessary devices,
+  but in chroot that is not true.  Grub will need to access the disk
+  devices, the following command will create them.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>for DEVICE in /sys/block/*/dev /sys/block/*/*/dev ; do
+     IFS=: read MAJOR MINOR &lt;$DEVICE
+     mknod /dev/`basename ${DEVICE%/dev}` b $MAJOR $MINOR
+done</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>Boot loading can be a complex area, so a few cautionary

general.ent

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "udev_update-20060330">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "March 30, 2006">
+<!ENTITY version "udev_update-20060331">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "March 31, 2006">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "udev_update"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->