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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/devices.xml | 9 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index d0ac8134b..856d10409 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para> </itemizedlist> </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> diff --git a/chapter06/devices.xml b/chapter06/devices.xml index 22bb3bdb7..87bfd6a32 100644 --- a/chapter06/devices.xml +++ b/chapter06/devices.xml @@ -14,8 +14,12 @@ <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 mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen> @@ -48,7 +52,6 @@ mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0 mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8 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 during system startup by the LFS-Bootscripts package. Since this is a chroot |