Re: fakeroot fails to handle device files
Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > fakeroot (as of today's unstable) fails to handle device files
> > > correctly, at least on my mips box. This means the d-i images
> > > have _regular_ files in /dev:
...
> > > Of course, booting from them fails with "unable to open an initial
> > > console". Running "fakeroot mknod ..." shows the same problem. Has
> > > anybody else seen this, or is just my installation broken?
> >
> > Hmm, that normaly doesn't matter a bit because d-i uses devfs.
>
> I thought so, too, but {m68k,mips,mipsel,sparc} define USERDEVFS=t
> in build/config/arch/linux-$ARCH.
Anything with a 2.4 kernel should use devfs.
MfG
Goswin
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