Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello All,
>
> fakeroot (as of today's unstable) fails to handle device files
> correctly, at least on my mips box. This means the d-i images
> have _regular_ files in /dev:
>
>
> iris14:~/devel/debian-installer$ ls -l build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39
> build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/console
>
> build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/rd:
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 0
>
> build/tmp/netboot/tree/dev/vc:
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ica2_ts csv 0 Nov 20 21:39 5
>
>
> Of course, booting from them fails with "unable to open an initial
> console". Running "fakeroot mknod ..." shows the same problem. Has
> anybody else seen this, or is just my installation broken?
Hmm, that normaly doesn't matter a bit because d-i uses devfs.
Happy debuging of fakeroot.
MfG
Goswin
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