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Re: init requires /dev/vc devices



* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2006-02-15 15:38]:
> I hope Martin can point you to what he's using; any of the builds on
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ should do if booted from a
> serial console, but Martin's on MIPS hardware and I don't know if this
> reproduces on i386.

You can only reproduce it on machines which don't have any virtual
consoles; or I suppose possibly by disabling virtual console support
in the kernel and only enabling serial console.

> Our problem is that if we don't create the devices, init fails to
> spawn programs when run on hardware with virtual consoles; but if we
> do create the devices then apparently it breaks on hardware without
> virtual consoles.

That's exactly the problem.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/



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