diff -urN hotplug-2004_09_23.orig/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug hotplug-2004_09_23/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug
--- hotplug-2004_09_23.orig/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug	2004-09-20 16:40:27.000000000 -0500
+++ hotplug-2004_09_23/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug	2005-08-19 15:47:47.172431432 -0500
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
 # $Id: default.hotplug,v 1.4 2004/09/20 21:40:27 kroah Exp $
 #
 
+if [ ! -e /dev/null ]
+then
+	/bin/mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3
+fi
 exec < /dev/null
 test -t 1 || exec > /dev/null
 test -t 2 || exec 2>&1