/dev is empty after I chroot to /mnt/sysimage in rescue mode

[Hervé Pagès]

Paul Tomblin wrote:

>busybox is a "do everything" application that's used a lot in rescue
>disks and those mini-distros (I used to use a 486 running LRP as my
>router - it booted off a floppy and the machine had no hard disk or CD
>ROM in it).  It looks at its argv[0] to see how it was invoked to see
>what it's supposed to do.  The idea is that instead of having a bunch
>of applications, dynamic libraries and a dynamic loader, you have one
>statically linked application so you don't have the overhead of
>dynamic loading but you also only need one copy of the libraries.
>
>Unfortunately a lot of the busybox versions of these applications are
>really stripped down to minimal functionality.
>
>  
>

That makes sense.

Thank you Paul for taking the time to give me a detailed answer!
Cheers,

Hervé