- http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9739 rc.single needs to be adjusted here, because init s apparently kills udev. Should be easy, I'll take care of it. - New udev breaks installation: post_install doesn't create /dev/console anymore. If /dev/console does not exist, kinit will fail to switch to the rootfs and the kernel will panic. This is due to the removal of migrate-udev. We need to include this code into the post_install: TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/udev.XXXXXX) mount --bind / $(TMPDIR) [ -c $(TMPDIR)/dev/console ] || mknod .... [ -c $(TMPDIR)/dev/null ] || mknod .... [ -c $(TMPDIR)/dev/zero ] || mknod .... umount $(TMPDIR) rmdir $(TMPDIR) We also need to make sure this works when pacman is used with the -r option. Maybe we don't need the bind mount, as udev installation is never done in a running system anymore, but only from a chroot or in the installer.