no keyboard with busybox-1.19.2 and kernel 2.6.38.8

Eial Czerwacki eial at scalemp.com
Thu Nov 17 07:36:36 UTC 2011


On 11/16/2011 08:39 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

> On Monday 14 November 2011 15:35, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to boot a image based on kernel 2.6.38.8 and busybox 1.19.2
>> but I don't seem to have keyboard.
>>
>> dmesg shows Warning: unable to open an initial console. and /dev/console
>> do exists see:
>>
>> ls -l /dev/console
>> crw-r--r--    1 root     root        5,   2 Nov 14 13:57 /dev/console
> 
> It's wrong. Should be 5,1 - not 5,2
> 


Hello Denys,

I've switched it from 5,2 to 5,1 and I still get that warning and the
keyboard doesn't work.

does it matters if I create the node in the initrd or at the boot time?

Thanks,

Eial.


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