On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 07:40:17PM -0500, Colin Dean wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > So yes, it probably does hide the real null and console. Colin, > > is your /etc/mdev.conf complete and readable ? What did you change > > when you last worked on it ? > > It's straight out of the book. I have made no modifications to it. If > you'd like, I can post it, but I'll have to type it by hand, as the > machine is not networked at the moment.
No, I don't care about the details, I just wondered if it had got trashed, perhaps in an fsck following an unclean shutdown. > > Additionally, before I realized this, the system was booting (albeit > unsuccessfully--still wasn't finding /dev/null or /dev/console, I just > didn't see the message) but was giving errors that eth0 and eth1 did not > exist. I believed this to be perhaps an error in my kernel config, and > decided to simply remove the interface setup scripts in /etc/network.d > while I figured out why I wasn't getting a prompt of any kind. > > The only modification I've made to any of the copy and paste stuff from > the book is in /etc/inittab, where I commented out all tty* lines but > the lines specifying tty0 and tty1 (and maybe tty2, too). > If I understood your earlier post, you had it booting before, so the problem is likely caused by whatever happened when it was last running. Maybe you built something extra, or rebuilt something. Perhaps you edited something. I'm just trying to prompt your memory! Sometimes the problem is accidental deletion, which is hard to spot, unless you have e.g. a tarball of how it was. Other than that, maybe the dates and times shown in ls -lR will help you identify what changed when. Alternatively, I misunderstood and it didn't work successfully before. In that case, try re-reading the book with the proverbial fine-toothed comb, and comparing it to your system, to see if anything looks missing or wrong. As I said, I'm not up to speed with -embedded, so I don't know the detail of how it boots. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-dev
