[Buildroot] Some devices are not created in the ext2 filesystem.

Ivan Kuten ivan.kuten at promwad.com
Sun Oct 14 12:43:17 UTC 2007


> I see that correspondent files are indeed created in the root filesystem
> tree:
> 
> [leonid at jaipur buildroot]$ ls -al root/dev/mc*
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-10-13 21:56 root/dev/mcfp-0
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-10-13 21:56 root/dev/mcfp-1
> 
> However when I load my ext2 root filesystem, I don't see these device
> nodes in /dev directory. What is wrong?
> 

Check that you are not using udev, because udev is mounted over /dev
thus hiding your entries.

BR,
Ivan

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