I have a need to run a 2.2.2 kernel on a number of machines in our
organisation, which currently don't run Linux. I just need to boot the
kernel and run one program to check some hardware setups.
So I thought, I'll build a tomsrtbt disk and put a 2.2.2 kernel on there.
Yes, I know, unsupported and all that, but I just need the kernel and a /bin
directory, no network or anything, "how hard can it be ?".
Well, it boots, but when I try to log on, I get the message:
ile: unable to allocate pty/tty pair
and then the logon prompt comes back up.
Any ideas what could be causing this ? The message starts with "ile:",
which might be a module I've never heard of, or maybe some tty driver losing
the first character of "file" or "pile", I guess.
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|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
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But there's something missing in the middle
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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