Modifying init to create /dev/console ?

[Robin Farine]

On Mon March 12 2007 18:13, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 12 March 2007, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 March 2007 23:46, Robin Farine wrote:
> > > On Sunday March 11 2007 23:06, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > > > Does anybody have an idea how to get rid of the warning?
> > >
> > > By creating a /dev/console device node in the NFS exported
> > > filesystem ?
> >
> > The whole point of his quest was to be able to _not_ have
> > /dev populated on rootfs. Imagine that root filesystem
> > doesn't support device nodes (for example, it's NTFS).
> > [Yes I agree it's perverted].
>
> not too perverted actually ... imagine a compact flash card
> formated as FAT32

With other problems: no links, 8.3 names, case insensitivity, no 
permissions, and maybe more.

> of course, another option would be to use initramfs ...

It seems to me that it would be easier to just format the flash card 
using a more friendly filesystem...

Robin