Hi, the attached patch creates /dev/null and /dev/console in the intrd. These are needed on ia64 with 2.6.10 kernels, as something (init?) accesses them before udev is properly up and running. If not applied, the kernel will die with the message: Warning: unable to open initial console.
regards, Erich
--- initrd_source/initrd.rul_orig 2005-07-19 18:57:11.000000000 +0200 +++ initrd_source/initrd.rul 2005-07-19 18:58:58.000000000 +0200 @@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ cd $(INITRD_BUILD_DIR) && \ mkdir -m 755 bin dev etc lib proc root sbin usr var test ! -d /lib64 || mkdir -m 755 -p $(INITRD_BUILD_DIR)/lib64 + cd $(INITRD_BUILD_DIR)/dev && \ + mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 && \ + mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 cd $(INITRD_BUILD_DIR) && \ mkdir -m 755 usr/bin usr/sbin etc/init.d var/run cd $(INITRD_BUILD_DIR) && mkdir -m 1777 tmp
