On Sunday 26 March 2006 5:12 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I saw the following problem today: I started debian-installer on a > machine with serial console, the device node /dev/tts/0 got > created
Still using devfs names, I see. > but as d-i started I repeatedly got errors saying: > device '/dev/tts/0' does not exist. > > As it turns out, this device does not use ttyS/tts as its name but > something else. A number of devices do that. > > What can we do to upport such devices? Is this a bug/feature request > in busybox's init? I'm confused: what exactly are you trying to do? (You're using init without an inittab, or...?) The general debain installer people might like svn 14606, which makes it so busybox 1.1.1 doesn't need to have the tty nodes created at the time the inittab is read, but instead checks when it tries to spawn the process on that tty... http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-14606.patch Dunno if that's relevant to this problem... Rob -- Never bet against the cheap plastic solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
