On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 17:05 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 27 2007 09:37, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > >> > >> int ret = sys_open((const char __user *)"/dev/console", O_RDWR, 0); > >> if(ret < 0) > >> printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: unable to open an " > >> "initial console (%d)\n", ret); > >> > >> I wonder what return code it will give (-EFAULT is my guess). > > > >Warning: unable to open an initial console (-2) > > > >-ENOENT ? > > > >/dev/console is definitely inside the nfsroot that I'm mounting... > > > In case you are using initramfs/initrd, make it available there too. I'm not. Everything is compiled in. I'm running make image, then elftoaout arch/sparc64/boot/image, and booting the a.out kernel over tftp. ~spot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html