Bug#541115: busybox: No longer creates tty[1-4] devices on s390
Package: busybox
Severity: serious
Version: 1:1.14.2-1
Tags: d-i
On s390 the installer fails to boot with:
can't open /dev/tty2: No such file or directory
can't open /dev/tty3: No such file or directory
can't open /dev/tty4: No such file or directory
I'm not sure how busybox can be responsible for this, but it's the only
relevant change in the D-I initrd I can see since my last working test.
The weird thing is that even with busybox 1:1.13.3-1 we only have:
# ls /dev/tty*
/dev/tty /dev/ttysclp0
But despite that D-I does boot correctly, so I guess the old busybox init
allowed devices to be referenced in /etc/inittab which do not exist and
would silently skip them (?).
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