Re: fakeroot fails to handle device files

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

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