Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Dec 1997 02:40:25 +0100 | From | Sander van Malssen <> | Subject | Re: Console in 2.1.72 |
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On Thursday, 11 December 1997 at 21:26:40 +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <E0xg76v-00026V-00@dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk>, > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > >I dutifully removed /dev/console, which was a link to tty0, and made the new > >node, (as I'm sure everyone did when they read the changes in the documentation > >Didn't work though - I just got lots of complaints from init that it > >couldn't open /dev/console > > Strange - are you sure you did it correctly ? I just booted a vanilla > 2.1.72 kernel, no serial console compiled in etc, and: > > [root](~)> mknod -m 622 console c 5 1 > [root](~)> ll console > crw--w--w- 1 root root 5, 1 Dec 11 21:19 console > [root](~)> echo test > console > test
I only get a 5,1 device if I add "console=tty0" to the lilo command line, but then again I also got bitten by the "#define VGA_CAN_DO_64KB" bug -- perhaps your workaround for that one fails to add the VGA screen to the console_drivers list? Or isn't there supposed to be any console at all if you don't explicitly add one to the lilo command line?
Cheers, Sander -- Sander van Malssen -- svm@kozmix.ow.nl -- http://www.cistron.nl/~svm/ * The 1-2-5 Page: http://www.cistron.nl/~svm/music/ *
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