On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 05:06:15PM +0000, Scott Ashcroft wrote: > On 21 Nov, Ben Collins wrote: > > Scratch that :) I forgot that I had relinked /dev/console to /dev/null, so > > the serial getty console worked, and kernel boot msgs showed, but > > obviously console msgs were not shown. This just bypassed the problem > > which i guess is in the console driver? > > I've just done: > > rm /dev/console > mknod /dev/console c 5 1 > > and now everyting works.
Eureka! This works great for me as well, I still get this message tho, not sure of the severity: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. INIT: version 2.76 booting Loading /etc/kbd/default.map.gz >>>Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Adding Swap: 98580k swap-space (priority -1) Checking root file system... Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul-98) It isn't affecting anything, so I'm not really concerned. > This needs to be in an FAQ somewhere. Agreed -- ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
