Modifying init to create /dev/console ?

[Terry Barnaby]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:22:25AM +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to create a basic Linux system based on Busybox and would 
>> like the ability to create the root file system as a normal user and 
>> without any /dev entries. The startup script would create the /dev 
>> entries as needed.
>> However, init and other programs obviously require /dev/console (and 
>> other /dev entries).
> 
> Are you using initramfs? You can create cpios with special files,
> different owners and suid/sgid as normal user, using usr/gen_init_cpio.c
> in the Linux source tree.
> 

Hi Luciano,

Yes, I am using initramfs and thanks for the info. I could use this for 
the boot initrd, but the system then mounts its real root fs using a 
read only NFS mount. I would prefer not to have a /dev/console in my NFS 
mounted file system either ...

Cheers

Terry