Re: Problem booting the kernel -- no tty

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On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 07:50:20 +0530, H. Chauhan wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> These are the messages displayed regarding the ttys. Note that tty0 is not
> listed. But while loading the default keymap it says
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 162: /dev/tty0: No such file or directory.
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 39: /dev/tty1: No such file or directory
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 39: /dev/tty2: No such file or directory
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 39: /dev/tty3: No such file or directory
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 39: /dev/tty4: No such file or directory
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 39: /dev/tty5: No such file or directory

And does /dev/ttyX (X = 0 - 5) actually exist on the root filesystem?
They have to (or you can use devfs or something like that, but these
things are still not in wide use). They should be character device nodes
with major number 4 and minor equal to their number (tty0 = 4,0, tty1
= 4,1 etc.).

> I have 2 partitions as ext2, the root and my home. The other partition where
> CVS directory and my backups are present is an ext3 partition. I built the
> kernel with ext3 partition. But I am not sure is I included it in kernel or 
> made a LKM.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>

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