DELETEME ====== udev ====== Udev is the tool used to populate your /dev directory. This tool is important for your system to be able to "interact" with underlying hardware, and is required for instance to detect hard drive, usb keys, ... Obviously, it is needed to launch any linux distribution you would like to have ! This Howto is the sequel of Framebuffer console tutorial on this wiki. It is assumed you managed to get a working framebuffer console. Step 1 : get all the udev related files For this, we will use the image provided by linux4tegra (provided by nvidia on their tegradeveloper website). You have to uncompress the targetfs first : ./target_fs.sh you should have a new directory created, namely _out/targetfs/ , with a full linux tree inside. You need to copy the file from this new directory into your ramdisk image : bin/udevd bin/udevadm lib/ld-linux.so.3 lib/libc.so.6 lib/libdl.so.2 lib/libselinux.so.1 lib/udev directory etc/udev directory Step 2 : Expand busybox For conveniance, create a link to busybox for the following command in your bin directory in your ramdisk image : ls mkdir mount umount clear echo sleep mknod ln exec switch_root Step 3 : Edit init Edit init to append the following content : mkdir -p /var/lock mount -t sysfs -o nodev,noexec,nosuid none /sys mount -t proc -o nodev,noexec,nosuid none /proc clear sysctl -w kernel.printk="4 4 1 7" >/dev/null 2>&1 mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0755 none /dev mknod -m 0600 /dev/console c 5 1 mknod /dev/null c 1 3 mkdir /dev/pts mount -t devpts -o noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 none /dev/pts mkdir -p /dev/.udev/db/ udevd --daemon mkdir -p /dev/.udev/queue/ /dev/.udev/rules.d/ udevadm trigger echo -n "Waiting for devices ... " udevadm settle sleep 5 echo "done" Now repack your boot image as you did in the framebuffer console. If everything goes well, doing ls /dev should return you a whole list of device.