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From: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.x ( unable to open an initial console & unable to mount devfs, err: -5 ) 
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:06:31 +0200
To: Madnux <madnux@skynet.be>
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On Sep 22, 2004, at 22:57, Madnux wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I have some problems with my kernel 2.6.7 and 2.6.8.1.
>
> I get this message ? mount_devfs_fs(): unable to mount devfs, err: -5 
> ? and then ? unable to open an initial console ? What's this ? What 
> does ? err: -5 ? mean ?
>
> I tried with no devfs compiled in but i still have this error message 
> ? unable to open an initial console ?
>
> Fortunatly, i had kept my old kernel ( 2.4.20 ) who have no devfs 
> compiled in and it run very well for 7 months ;-)
>
>
> What's wrong with my system ?? Did i forget an option in the 
> compilation ?
>
>
> I have looked everywhere about that problem until monday !

I think you are running one of the latest udev snapshots from RawHide, 
and it erased some important device nodes from your "/dev" directory. I 
guess you'll need to run /sbin/makedev to recreate the missing devices 
files.
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