Modifying init to create /dev/console ?
David Daney
ddaney at avtrex.com
Thu Mar 1 02:15:21 UTC 2007
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007, David Daney wrote:
>> I think it is time that you change your assumption that you can boot a
>> system that does not contain /dev/console in its root file system. You
>> cannot do it with a standard Linux kernel.
>
> perhaps you need to change your assumption ? you can boot Linux without
> a /dev/console just fine ... you dont get status output, but in an embedded
> system, big whoop
> -mike
I am obviously wrong for newer kernels. Sorry for that.
But in my past hacking with 2.4 kernels I seem to remember that the
kernel would panic if the rootfs was missing /dev/console. However I
suppose I could be wrong about that as well.
David Daney
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