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  • From: Karsten Behrmann <BearPerson AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] Please help with 2.6.14.2
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:57:13 +0100

Christopher Dombroski wrote:
> Tanel Tammet wrote:
>> Just before finding the keyboard it warns that it did not manage to
>> create or use
>> the initial console or terminal.
> To me this sounds like perhaps the kernel can't find /dev/console, which
> it supposedly needs. I would boot into an older kernel passing it
> init=/bin/bash (hilight the appropriate kernel in lilo, hit tab, and
> then type in init=/bin/bash) and check for /dev/console and /dev/null.
> If they don't exist, they can be created with:
>
> mknod -m 600 /dev/console c 5 1
> mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

Also, our init system expects /dev/initctl to exist:
mknod /dev/initctl p

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Karsten Behrmann | Source Mage GNU/Linux developer, ISO team
BearPerson AT gmx.net | http://www.sourcemage.org

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