A note for everybody who uses gensplash and splashutils. After i
deleted the device files and rebooted the silent mode refused to work.
So i decided to reemerge splashutils. But this is not necessary. After
installing, the ebuild checks for missing devices, which was in my
case /dev/tty1.
Here is the output from emerge which solved my problem!
It appears that the /dev/tty1 character device doesn't exist on
the root filesystem. This will prevent the silent mode from working
properly. You can fix the problem by doing:
mount --bind / /lib/splash/tmp
mknod /lib/splash/tmp/dev/tty1 c 4 1
umount /lib/splash/tmp
I hope this helps to avoid confusion!
Daniel
So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea? Can I just move them and
then copy them back? Or is what I have normal number wise?
Full of questions ain't I?
Dale
:-) :-)
I have filed a bug [1] to gentoo documentation for adding a hint to
splashutils users.
Until now i just get a: "WORKSFORME, i must have missconfigured something!".
But what? Is it possible that /dev/tty1 is not in place at these early
moments of booting when it is needed by splashutils?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145118
Daniel
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