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  • From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] no virtual console with kernel 2.6.1
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:57:40 -0800

Reintegrating back into the list (so that others can correct my bad advice).


On Tuesday 27 January 2004 2:55 pm, GOUY Yann wrote:
> Le lun 26/01/2004 à 15:15, Jason Flatt a écrit :
> > On Monday 26 January 2004 6:00 am, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:
> > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:59:36 +0100, GOUY Yann wrote
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have a problem while booting the kernel 2.6.1 whereas booting on
> > > > kernel 2.4.24 is perfectly OK.
> > > >
> > > > I have no virtual console and in the log, I got agetty complaining
> > > > about /dev//dev/vc/1, /dev//dev/vc/2, ...
> > > >
> > > > I have compiled the 2.6.1 with virtual console and with virtual fb
> > > > console as well as without virtual fb console.
> > > >
> > > > does someone as an idea?
> > > >
> > > > thanks by advance.
> > >
> > > Yann,
> > >
> > > You need to mount /dev/pts. I don't have a machine where I can check
> > > the syntax for fstab right now (I'm at work), but if you can't find any
> > > other references I'll try to post how to do it today. In a command
> > > line it would be "mount -t pts none /dev/pts".
> >
> > How about this?:
> > devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
>
> Hi,
>
> as I don't have a console I can type "mount -t pts none /dev/pts" to the
> command line (the well known problem of the chicken and the egg) but
> I've tried to mount it via /etc/fstab, no more success.
>
> I'm surely missing something but can't find out what.
>
> regards.
>
> Yann

Boot your computer using your SMGL install CD. Continue at the first menu,
then shell at the second menu. Mount your main partition under /mnt, and
change your fstab there.


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