Re: System installation from a USB stick

[Adam Pribyl]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Adam Pribyl <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Kernel in dmesg identifies the device like /dev/sdf, doing
> > mknod /dev/sdf b 8 80; mknod /dev/sdf1 b 8 81; mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt
> > solves the problem. So definitely the drive is at sdf. It looks to me
> > like there is some built in limit in udev for number of "scsi" devices
> > in this case or something.
>
> Hmm, I have no idea.  We’re using a relatively old version of udev,
> maybe that will be solved when upgrading.

OK, I found it. The /dev/* files present there are just some static 
version nodes. udev needs a /dev to be mounted as devtmpfs. This helps

deco stop udev
mount -t devtmpfs dev /dev
deco start udev

then /dev is correctly populated.

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.


Adam Pribyl