nfsroot & mipsel

[Brent Cook]

On Thursday 29 December 2005 14:00, Michael Erickson wrote:
> Before you remove and remake all of that stuff, you might just want to
> try making the device nodes by hand in the NFS directory. That way you
> can be sure that it works.
>
> It also seems to me that build_mipsel/root/dev won't be setup correctly
> with device nodes. Instead, you should choose to build the output as a
> tar file. Then (as root) untar that file into the NFS share.
>

That's right; the build system uses fakeroot to simulate creating device nodes 
when building a target like tar or ext2 rather than create them directly 
under build_mipsel/root/dev; fakeroot then tricks tar or gene2fs into 
thinking that there are actual device nodes in your dev directory.