On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:29:52PM +0000, Philip Armstrong wrote: > Ah ha. Thanks. > > Why isn't devfs mounting on by default if it won't boot without it? from the changelog of d-i : * Joey Hess - Always include /dev/console, even for images that will use devfs. This means that netboot users will not have to remember the devfs=mount. So, everything is (now) fine :)