Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs

[Michael Tokarev]

Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
[]
> > > Er, don't you need /dev/console for console output to happen? (And that
> > > it's a good idea to have /dev/null around too).  Or has that changed?
> >
> > scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh creates that for every kernel.
>
> I get "Warning: unable to open initial console", so on post 2.6.12 (but
> now stale) git.  Does userspace need to be doing something as well?

Are you using initramfs (cpio archive of the root fs)?
Or "ol'good" initrd (cramfs, romfs, whatever)?

/mjt
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