diff --git a/kernel/src/main.cpp b/kernel/src/main.cpp
index 0136e6a7..967a35e3 100644
--- a/kernel/src/main.cpp
+++ b/kernel/src/main.cpp
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@ extern "C" void _start()
 
     kinfoln("Prepared scheduler tasks");
 
-    Init::finish_kernel_boot();
-
-    VFS::mkdir("/", "dev");
+    ASSERT(VFS::mkdir("/", "dev") == 0);
     VFS::mount("/dev", DeviceFS::get());
 
+    Init::finish_kernel_boot();
+
     Interrupts::enable(); // Task switching commences here
 
     kinfoln("Interrupts enabled");