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

From: Tom Rini
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 17:30:11 EST


On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:08:41AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 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)?

I'm just booting the kernel as normal, and assuming that the initramfs
that's built by default is used before my real rootfs happens.

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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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