The current point of failure in bleeding edge full system x86 is actually an init script that populates /dev, so there's a possibility there aren't beyond the absolute necessities. I've installed Gentoo many times on real machines and I've never had to make a device file by hand. If you do, though, you should look at the mknod command.
Gabe Quoting nathan binkert <[email protected]>: > Out of curiosity, are there any devices in /dev on the image? My > guess is that one of the steps in installing the image is to create > all of the devices. I'm don't have a good connection right now, and I > can't remember what I did, but take a look at the gentoo alpha > handbook and see if you can figure out which step does that for you. > > Nate > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Veydan Wu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, Ali, you are right. There is not /dev/ttyS0 on the stage image. How can >> I add that to the image? Is there any way to solve this? I hope I don't have >> to create an image myself. >> >>> >>> I would guess that there isn't a /dev/ttyS0 on the disk image. I don't >>> know what is in the stage 3 image as far as dev inodes go, but it >>> should be populated with approximately what is in the image we >>> distribute. >>> >>> Ali >>> >>> On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Veydan Wu wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, Ali, Thanks for you help. I have created a blank image and copy >>> > Gentoo stage 3 in it. Everything seems OK, but when I used it to run >>> > M5 in FS mode, I got an error below: >>> > >>> > Warning: unable to open an initial console. >>> > Restarting system. >>> > >>> > The simulator just quit from there. The default console I used is >>> > downloaded from the website and runs fine if I use the default image >>> > download from the website. How can I solve this problem. Thanks ! >>> > >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
