Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267186AbUIWVIa (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:08:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267367AbUIWVIE (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:08:04 -0400 Received: from outmx004.isp.belgacom.be ([195.238.2.101]:40668 "EHLO outmx004.isp.belgacom.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267186AbUIWVG1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:06:27 -0400 Message-ID: <415339D3.2080206@skynet.be> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:02:11 +0200 From: Madnux User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.x ( unable to open an initial console & unable to mount devfs, err: -5 ) References: <4151E749.7060107@skynet.be> <47612A96-0CDB-11D9-BC62-000D9352858E@linuxmail.org> In-Reply-To: <47612A96-0CDB-11D9-BC62-000D9352858E@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 51 Sorry but i'm not running udev ! I've run /sbin/MAKEDEV but it doesn't work anymore. I still get "Unable to open an initial console" I don't understand what's wrong ... Felipe Alfaro Solana a ?crit : > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/