/dev/null not a device in Linux boot image / initrd

2010-02-08 Thread Johannes Singer
Hello everyone! First of all, thank you for this great project! I stumbled over what I believe is a bug in the Linux boot image: /dev/null is not created as a device, and so everything that is put into it is returned when reading it. As I see it, /dev/null is first written to in /etc/master,

Re: /dev/null not a device in Linux boot image / initrd

2010-02-08 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Johannes Singer escribió: > I stumbled over what I believe is a bug in the Linux boot image: /dev/null is > not created as > a device, and so everything that is put into it is returned when reading it. > Johannes, very...very nice investigation. I guess that some how I need to create /dev/nul

RE: /dev/null not a device in Linux boot image / initrd

2010-02-08 Thread Steven Blackery
Inside devices.txt is: dev/null c 1 3 which, if you are using mknod-cpio.pl with devices.txt as the input to append the devices to your initrd, should work... Steven From: Juan Jose Pablos [mailto:jua...@apertus.es] Johannes Singer escribió: > I stumbled over what I believe is a bug in the Li

Re: /dev/null not a device in Linux boot image / initrd

2010-02-08 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Steven Blackery escribió: > Inside devices.txt is: > > dev/null c 1 3 > > which, if you are using mknod-cpio.pl with devices.txt as the input to append > the devices to your initrd, should work... > Steven, that is exactly how is done it when building the iso image (I did not know): ## devic

Re: 4.9 linuxboot

2010-02-08 Thread Juan Jose Pablos
Jeremy Brown escribió: > I burned the ISO for 4.9 from the testing directory. The CD won’t boot. > Get message Could not find kernel image: menu.c32. > > I really use the tftp boot but I wanted to let everyone know. Hope it > wasn’t a bad burn. Jeremy, I found out the problem and it is fixed on