--- udev-109/start_udev.MAKEDEV	2007-04-30 11:51:20.000000000 +0200
+++ udev-109/start_udev	2007-04-30 12:14:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@
 
 	[ -d $udev_root/pts ] || mkdir -m 0755 $udev_root/pts
 	[ -d $udev_root/shm ] || mkdir -m 0755 $udev_root/shm
-	[ -a /dev/MAKEDEV ] || ln -s $MAKEDEV /dev/MAKEDEV;
 
 	if [ -x $MAKEDEV ]; then
+		[ -a /dev/MAKEDEV ] || ln -s $MAKEDEV /dev/MAKEDEV;
 		for i in /etc/udev/makedev.d/*.nodes; do
 			if [ -f "$i" ]; then 
 				cat "$i" | sed -e 's,#.*,,g' | \