Initrd /dev scripts?

[Clint Olson]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Clint Olson wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>  Hey, I'm trying to get FC5 to work with coLinux
>> (http://www.colinux.org).  I've got it so that it boots just fine --
>> however, apparently FC5 creates its /dev device nodes at boot time, via
>> a script run from initrd.  Since coLinux doesn't execute this initrd,
>> most of the devices normally available in /dev simply aren't there when
>> I boot via coLinux.  I'm trying to figure out how to extract the initrd
>> so I can find the script and migrate it over to something that gets
>> executed when coLinux boots.  Any pointers?
>>
>> Clint Olson
>>
>>
>>     
> The /dev file system entries are created/managed by udev. There are
> a few entries in the /dev directory so that the system can boot and
> load the udev virtual file system, but because the /dev virtual file
> system is mounted on top of /dev, it replaces everything that was
> there. It is not part of the initrd. "man udev" will give you more
> information about it.
>
> You basically have 2 choices - ether implement udev in coLinux, or
> create the devices you need in /dev under coLinux.
>
> Mikkel
>   
Hmm... so, would it be possible to, say, make a tarball of the /dev 
directory when FC5 is booted normally, and restore the tarball when 
booted in coLinux without udev to make the associations permanent?  I've 
never tried tarring device nodes before...

Clint Olson