Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect that init(8) tries to open /dev/console and fails.
Likely, and then it does not run the first rc script. > > A workaround is not the way to handle this problem. > > Do we need a "dummy" console device that we can fall back on as a last > resort? I have a theory that back in the legacy days, the vga / pckbd on isa always responded sufficiently for a console attachment to be created. But in a new EFI "legacy-free" circumstance, RAMDISK may be missing some code (because is is large) and therefore not attach a console. With a console of last resort that has no input method (does it block? or does it always indicate ready and EOF?) worries me a little bit. We could be trading one problem for another. I thought when these VM's are booted with GENERIC, they have a console.
