From: Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Boot failure, 2.6.10-rc2 (resolved)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:47:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1100656045.5008.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0411162122200.32739@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Ok, thanks, I can get 2.6.10-rc2 to boot/run. I didn't need devfs to
build new kernels in Fedora Core 2 (and devfs is marked as obsolete),
but the new distribution -FC3- needs devfs to run.
Thanks,
Bob
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:24 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> How, after all, did you run into this error? Directly after upgrading (if
> >> applicable)?
> >No, [...] but I prefer to run my own custom kernels.
> (So the post here is justified)
>
> >Thanks for your reply though. Your question as to whether /dev/console
> >exists at boot time is making me question whether /dev/console exists at
> >boot time.
>
> You could find out by taking a live distro and checking. That's because I
> suspect your old kernel, which probably still works, to contain ~~ something
> magical ~~ that /dev/console is created at the right time.
> devfs probably?
>
>
> Jan Engelhardt
--
Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-17 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-16 19:08 Boot failure, 2.6.10-rc2 Bob Gill
2004-11-16 19:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-16 20:19 ` Bob Gill
2004-11-16 20:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-17 1:47 ` Bob Gill [this message]
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