>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. Please try adding this before sys_open... /* this sys_open never succeeds, hence sys_close is not needed */ ret = sys_open((const char __user *)"/dev", O_RDWR, 0); printk(KERN_WARNING "Unable to open /dev (%d)\n", ret); And tell us the error code. * either it's EISDIR * or ENOENT in either case, more digging is needed, and if it means writing a namespace walker [ls -Rl] ;-) -`J' -- - 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
