Subject: Re: Boot failure, 2.6.10-rc2 (resolved)
From: Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:47:25 -0700
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Ok, thanks, I can get 2.6.10-rc2 to boot/run.  I didn't need devfs to
build new kernels in Fedora Core 2 (and devfs is marked as obsolete),
but the new distribution -FC3- needs devfs to run.
Thanks,
Bob  

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:24 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> 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
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Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net>

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