[solved] what /dev-devices are necessary for boot?

kEiNsTeiN · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany

Hi! After backing up my gentoo with http://gentoo-wiki.com/Simple_snapshot_style_backup, I wasn't able to boot, because I excluded /dev, and the kernel crashed with "unable to start init" or something similiar.

So.. what devices do I actually need? It's not that biggy to use MAKEDEV for everything in man MAKEDEV, but... now I have a _lot_ of nodes in /dev

chrbecke · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

AFAIK, all you need is console and null. You can create them with