Re: [linuxdc-dev] Building my own DC distro

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Monday 04 Nov 2002 7:29 pm, Mike Barnett wrote:
>     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.


I just assume that devfs doesn't know about gdroms - probably because the 
gdrom code doesn't properly handle initialisation under devfs. I'd have to 
look at the code.

Does that make sense?

Adrian