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SubjectRe: Location of shmfs; devfs automagics
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In article <cistron.20000329163715.A22862@redhat.com>,
Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> wrote:
>Really? I've got two machines here on which /dev/console is a hard
>link to /dev/ttyS0. I cannot have that functionality with devfs? No

Make the console a character device with major 5 minor 1 (that is
defined as the official /dev/console), compile the kernel with serial
console support and boot with "console=ttyS0".
Then you will get the kernel messages on ttyS0 as a bonus.

Mike.
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build a motorcycle, and you start with a bathtub, no good will ever come of it.
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