On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Neil Booth wrote:

> So I'm playing around on a Soekris net4801 box, and decide
> I want to be able to mount / read-only, so I removed /dev/console
> so that init automatically does a MAKEDEV on an mfs filesystem.
>
> However, I want to revert this temporarily, but have not found
> a way of doing so: /bin/sh as init fails, probably because of
> lack of /dev/console, and if I use normal /sbin/init I can't
> umount /dev even in single user mode because of "device busy".
> Similarly trying to mount /dev/wd0a, my root device, simultaneously
> elsewhere gets "device busy".
>
> How can I recreate /dev/console on the /dev/wd0a filesystem and thus
> prevent an mfs /dev?

	Can you not 'umount -f /dev ; cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV console'?
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