a tmpfs filesystem mounted, which is populated from scratch by udev.
Created nodes or changed permissions don't survive a reboot.
- - The content of /lib/udev/devices directory should be copied over to the
- tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes to initialize udev.
+ - The content of /lib/udev/devices directory which contains the nodes,
+ symlinks and directories, which are always expected to be in/dev, should
+ be copied over to the tmpfs mounted /dev, to provide the required nodes
+ to initialize udev and continue booting.
- - The udevd daemon must be started to receive netlink events from the kernel
- driver core.
+ - The udevd daemon must be started by an init script to receive netlink
+ events from the kernel driver core.
- From kernel version 2.6.15 on, the hotplug helper /sbin/hotplug should
be disabled with an init script before the boot scripts are run and