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<para>When the kernel boots the system, it requires the presence of a few device
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nodes, in particular the <filename class="devicefile">console</filename> and
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-<filename class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. Create these by
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-running the following commands:</para>
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+<filename class="devicefile">null</filename> devices. The device nodes will
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+be created on the hard disk so that they are available before
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+<command>udev</command> has been started, and additionally when Linux is started
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+in single user mode (hence the restrictive permissions on
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+<filename class="devicefile">console</filename>). Create the devices by running
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+the following commands:</para>
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<screen><userinput>mknod -m 600 /dev/console c 5 1
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mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3</userinput></screen>
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@@ -48,7 +52,6 @@ mknod -m 666 /dev/tty c 5 0
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mknod -m 444 /dev/random c 1 8
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mknod -m 444 /dev/urandom c 1 9
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chown root:tty /dev/{console,ptmx,tty}</userinput></screen>
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-<!-- -->
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<para>There are some symlinks and directories required by LFS that are created
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during system startup by the LFS-Bootscripts package. Since this is a chroot
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