I'm building my own distro from scratch using a base of Gatliff's =
set up. I'm up to date and able to build the kernel, busybox etc. I'm =
a novice when it comes to the Linux boot process so forgive me if my =
questions are basic.
I'm stuck at two places currently:
1) /dev/gdrom isn't showing up in the /dev directory
2) I'm not sure how to leave myself with a busybox shell using inittab
#1 - I'm using fsdev to populate the /dev directory, with the exception =
being /dev/console. There's a bunch of devices shown in /dev, but not =
/dev/gdrom. The gdrom driver is clearly being initialized and I traced =
it into the kernel and found that it is indeed being registered. When I =
look at /proc/devices I can see that the gdrom is a block device with =
major of 250 (correct). So why isn't /dev/gdrom appearing? I can =
manually do a mknod and create it, mount it, etc.
#2 - If I don't use an inittab, then the system boots up into a busybox =
shell. Just press enter and I'm given a shell prompt. But, /proc and =
my gdrom devices are not mounted. I thought perhaps using inittab to =
run a script to do a mount -a would cause /proc and /gdrom to be =
mounted. When I put an inttab in place, I don't know how to leave =
myself a shell running after the init is finished. What's a good init =
line to put in inittab to cause this to happen? I've looked at examples =
but can't find an example using busybox with the /dev/console.
Thanks
Mike
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