Re: errors while building boot-floppies
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 10:08:32AM +0000 , Peter Naulls wrote:
>
> This is with 2.2.9, but I have noticed it with
> previous versions:
>
> I: making devices in root area (/var/tmp/boot-floppies/root-tmp-11563)
> /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_pty/m%d=2: No such file or directory
this is because you are running kernel with devfs and MAKEDEV is taking
major/minor numbers from /proc/devices (I think) and the file is a bit
different with devfs enabled (it must not be mounted, only compiled in).
Any yes, it's a but in makedev.
Petr Cech
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