Kernel 3.19.2 inittab ::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 ::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit #!/bin/busybox ash busybox mount -t devtmpfs dev /dev At bootup /dev is empty. After the kernel is loaded I get this : mount: mounting dev on /dev failed: device or resource busy But /dev was created normally : drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 May 6 23:39 bsg drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 May 6 23:39 bus crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 May 6 23:40 console ...... dmesg [ 3.523940] devtmpfs: mounted [ 3.524235] Freeing unused kernel memory: 796K (ffffffff816a3000 - ffffffff8176a000) [ 3.884091] Switched to clocksource tsc