Initrd /dev scripts?

[Robert Locke]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:32 -0700, Clint Olson wrote:
> Clint Olson wrote:
> > Ahh, thanks.  Everything I was googling was saying that it was a 
> > gzipped ext2 filesystem, but trying to mount it as such wasn't 
> > working.  Cpio did the trick.
> >
> > Clint Olson
> >
> 
> Ok, new question:  Where do all of the /dev devices come from?  The 
> initrd script only creates a few of them, or at least only creates a few 
> of them manually.  Here's a listing of /dev when booted into coLinux:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/751888
> 
> and here's the same listing when booted into FC5 normally:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/751881
> 
> Both listings are attached to this message as text files.
> 
> The problem I'm running across is that there are no virtual terminals 
> available when running under coLinux, due to a lack of said device 
> files.  Where do these get created in FC5?
> 
> Clint Olson

Take a look at "udev" which is spawned by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.....

--Rob