Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I forgot to address the issue of booting without "options > MAGICLINKS" in the kernel. No matter how early in /etc/rc you try > to put the "sysctl -w vfs.generic.magiclinks=1" command, init(8) > will want to open /dev/console earlier than that. So you either > have to enable magiclinks in the kernel (so it's already enabled > before init(8) starts), or you have to arrange for /dev/console to > work even before magiclinks are enabled via the sysctl command.
But it does: /dev/console (and all tty definitions) are the same on i386 and amd64. Running a diff between i386 and amd64 MAKEDEV shows that there is little difference. -- Emmanuel Dreyfus http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz [email protected]
