Re: Running 2.3.99-pre3 headless doesn't create tty<n> devices???

From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 22:24:20 EST


On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> I've just gone from 2.2.13 to 2.3.99-pre3 with only a few problems. One
> thing that I noticed AFTER I had re-assembled the box (don't ask whether I
> had to take it apart) and put it back into the closet is that if you run it
> headless (i.e. without a keyboard and VGA card and without even a serial
> console) it doesn't create tty1, tty2, etc. devices, such that my console
> gettys run amok.
>
> I now have temporarily disabled them in inittab, but I'd like to change the
> kernel's behavior like it was in 2.2.13. This latter kernel would create the
> tty? devices even when there wasn't any (VGA or serial) console available.
>
> How would I accomplish this in 2.3.99-pre3? Any work-around?

don't compile in devfs.

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