On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:16:36PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Do you really need to delete the extra vc devices? > > Yes; because busybox init currently checks whether the devices are there > (whether the files exist), and if they are, tries to open them. > Repeatedly. Issuing an error every time it fails (which, of course, > happens every time). Removing the files once those error messages start > to appear only changes the error that appears; and with those messages > going over the screen, the usefulness of d-i is quite, uh, low. > > This obviously really is a bug in busybox init, hence my previous > suggestion to try and fix that one. I wonder if it's not because inittab has respawn for vc/3 & vc/4? Do you see an easier solution than to pass a kernel parameter? Is there one you're already passing that we could overload for 2.2 kernels (console= maybe)? -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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