From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: no console with current (bk) kernel
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:01:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u12960nx.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bvik4v$kf9$1@news.cistron.nl> (Miquel van Smoorenburg's message of "Sun, 1 Feb 2004 10:24:31 +0000 (UTC)")
>>>>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> writes:
>> and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
>> console, followed by a reboot. (Too fast to copy anything down.)
>> What am I missing?
Miquel> A root filesystem ;)
Miquel> Looks like the kernel cannot open /dev/console.
That was it. Box runs gentoo and is still using devfs; somehow
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT got lost from my default config....
Thanks.
-JimC
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-02 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-01 2:45 James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-02-01 3:20 ` Rafael Pereira
2004-02-01 7:33 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2004-02-01 10:24 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-02 14:01 ` James H. Cloos Jr. [this message]
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