Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS bug (Linux 2.0.33 to HP): device files major num==0! | Date | Sat, 03 Jan 1998 21:02:54 -0800 | From | Ben Woodard <> |
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> Dear Linux Kernel readers, > > I'm wondering if someone can help me with a problem: I'm trying to > use NFSROOT to store all my Linux files on an HP/UX machine. But there > seems to be a bug in either the HP/UX NFS server, or the Linux NFS > client. > > The bug is that the major number of any character or block device > which is stored on the HP box, is shown as "0" on the Linux box. > > The symptoms of this is that on booting, the kernel can't open > /dev/tty1, and I get the message "Unable to open initial console". > > I have attached a transcript which shows this problem, using the tty* > char device files as an example. > > I would appreciate ideas from anyone who could tell me how to go > about finding: > > i) Whether the problem is on the HP/UX side or the Linux side, and > ii) How to get some diagnostic information which shows this. > > Many thanks, > > Mitch.
I wonder if the problem might be outside of the NFS code because I am having a similar problem with 2.0.33. I was going around to all my machines on Friday and upgrading the kernels and I ran into a snag that I was planning to track down after the weekend. I got the same "Unable to open inital console" message but I wasn't using NFS to boot or anything. The funny thing is that the problem happened with one machine but not another. I figured that I had built the kernel wrong and was going to track it down that way. However, the previous message might indicate that there is a bug in the 2.0.33 kernel. I will track it down that way come Monday.
-ben
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