diff -p -up udev-125/start_udev.MAKEDEV udev-125/start_udev
--- udev-125/start_udev.MAKEDEV	2008-08-26 17:23:52.000000000 +0200
+++ udev-125/start_udev	2008-08-26 17:24:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ make_extra_nodes () {
 
 	[ -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;
 
 	[ -d /dev/.udev/makedev.d ] || mkdir -p /dev/.udev/makedev.d
 	USE_MD5="false"
@@ -102,6 +101,7 @@ make_extra_nodes () {
 
 
 	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 			   
 				# use a little caching to speedup things