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Re: Potato boot floppies problems on MVME (was Re: MVME162, The saga continues.....)



> On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:53:20PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > I've only got as far as partition harddisk so far, but I have
base2_2.tgz
> > so I'll continue and see what happens.
>
> Worked ok on an MVME177, except base2_2.tgz had /dev/console as a link
> to tty0, rather than major 5 minor 1.

This is the same problem as with the root disk /dev/console device,
base2_2.tgz must be built on a system running a 2.1 or later kernel
otherwise MAKEDEV creates a tty0 device and a symlink.

Nick
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