Re: Problem solved, sort of (was: Re: 2.1.7 ok except gpm not ok)

[Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@cs.tut.fi>]

Mike Stone wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 04:12:21PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> > The real question remains: Should console be a symlink to
> > tty0? At least 2.0.35 linux/Documentation/devices.txt says:
> [snip]
> > jopus:/dev# ls -l console
> > crw--w--w-   1 root     tty        5,   1 Feb 11 01:03 console
> >
> > jopus:/dev# ls -l tty0
> > crw--w--w-   1 root     tty        4,   0 Feb 15 16:31 tty0
> 
> How'd this happen? What kernel are you running? The 5,1 device is the new
> /dev/console for the 2.2 series kernels--and AFIAK, debian never put it
> there. For the older kernels, linking to /dev/tty0 is the usual form.

I got the kernel and /dev files from 2.1.7 install disks. I
checked root.bin and it has console correct as 4,0 major,minor.
However, it looks like base2_1.tgz has /dev/console as 5,1. I
also checked 2.1.6 disks and they are correct. See below:

% pwd
/mnt/local/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.6-1999-01-30
% tar -ztvf base2_1.tgz |egrep 'dev/(console|tty0)'
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 1999-01-30 12:21 dev/console -> tty0
crw--w--w- root/tty        4,0 1999-01-30 12:21 dev/tty0

% cd ../2.1.7-1999-02-11

% tar -ztvf base2_1.tgz |egrep 'dev/(console|tty0)'
crw--w--w- root/tty        4,0 1999-02-11 01:03 dev/tty0
crw--w--w- root/tty        5,1 1999-02-11 01:03 dev/console

I guess we need 2.1.8 disks too. I sent Cc: to debian-boot too.

> Mike Stone

// Heikki
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Heikki Vatiainen                  * hessu@cs.tut.fi
Tampere University of Technology  * Tampere, Finland