David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> writes:
> 	init has code to automatically create an mfs /dev (using
> 	/dev/MAKEDEV) if the root filesystem is MSDOS, conditionalised
> 	on MSDOSFS_ROOT.
> 
> 	Currently a system booted without /dev/console is SOL.
> 	The best solution would be to have the kernel handle this, but in
> 	the meantime, what do people think about adding code to init to
> 	check for the existance of /dev/console, and if not present,
> 	automatically create it?

It might well make sense to move /dev/MAKEDEV to /etc, as well...



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