For those who don't want to use devfs (me)

I love Arch Linux. It's my third distro, I've been using it for two days now, and it absolutely owns me. Definitely a keeper.
The one thing I didn't like is devfs (it's not that it's a bad technology, but more that it's on its way out), so I decided to go with a classic /dev layout while I wait for udev to be finished.
Here's the steps I took:
1) Grab MAKEDEV. This is a nice automated utility to create all the standard character and block nodes you'd find in /dev.
2) Mount your root partition at a second mount point (I used /mnt/hd). This is important, as devfs is still running. You want to make these changes in /mnt/hd/dev.
3) Change directories to /mnt/hd/dev and run MAKEDEV.
4) In your grub or lilo configuration, make sure to change the path to the root device to a standard /dev path (in my case, /dev/hda3)
5) In inittab, where it runs agetty, make sure to change all the tty nodes from vc/x to ttyx (starting at tty1).
6) Do the same in /etc/securetty so you can log in as root!
7) If you are running gpm, make sure to change the path to your mouse device in /etc/conf.d/gpm to a new one (if it's using a devfs path like mine was). Do the same for any other daemons where such a change might be relevant.
8) Rebuild your kernel without devfs, reboot, and pray. (It took me a few panics to get this procedure down )
If I'm missing anything, let me know.
Arch linux owns me

Hmmm, I, too, tried the LFS MAKEDEV. but AFAIR there were some issues with a slightly different group/user setup. The MAKEDEV tried to change ownerships to non-existent users/groups. Did you run in such problems ?
P.S.:
For the hammer port, I do need this, since devfs is broken in the amd64 kernel. You can't even select it in the various "make *config". There seems to be some memory corruption going on on amd64 uisng devfs.
P.P.S.: I have an almost working base system in (almost) complete 64bit mode.

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