Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 08:38:34PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> >Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
> >>I see the following differences from this mtree comparison:
> >
> >As I said, if your only filesystem is root on raid0a and your swap
> >is on sd0b/wd0b, you boot to multiuser without touching /dev
> 
> Perhaps you are thinking of some other scenario, but I am talking
> about the scenario that exists if you follow the steps in my first
> message, and do not follow the steps in my second message, and use a
> kernel that does not have options MAGICLINKS.  In such a case, any
> attempt to cd /dev or open /dev/console will fail, because /dev will
> be a dangling symlink.

init should detect this (doesn't it already?) and mount a tmpfs /dev.

Thor