Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261778AbUKPUhy (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:37:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261783AbUKPUf3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:35:29 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:39614 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261815AbUKPUYI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:24:08 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:24:01 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Bob Gill cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Boot failure, 2.6.10-rc2 In-Reply-To: <1100636345.4388.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <1100632116.4388.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1100636345.4388.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 928 Lines: 24 >> How, after all, did you run into this error? Directly after upgrading (if >> applicable)? >No, [...] but I prefer to run my own custom kernels. (So the post here is justified) >Thanks for your reply though. Your question as to whether /dev/console >exists at boot time is making me question whether /dev/console exists at >boot time. You could find out by taking a live distro and checking. That's because I suspect your old kernel, which probably still works, to contain ~~ something magical ~~ that /dev/console is created at the right time. devfs probably? Jan Engelhardt -- Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Am Fassberg, 37077 Göttingen, www.gwdg.de - 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/