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Re: d-i on serial console with name != ttyS/tts



On Sunday 26 March 2006 5:12 pm, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I saw the following problem today: I started debian-installer on a
> machine with serial console, the device node /dev/tts/0 got
> created

Still using devfs names, I see.

> but as d-i started I repeatedly got errors saying: 
>     device '/dev/tts/0' does not exist.
>
> As it turns out, this device does not use ttyS/tts as its name but
> something else.  A number of devices do that.
>
> What can we do to upport such devices?  Is this a bug/feature request
> in busybox's init?

I'm confused: what exactly are you trying to do?  (You're using init without 
an inittab, or...?)

The general debain installer people might like svn 14606, which makes it so 
busybox 1.1.1 doesn't need to have the tty nodes created at the time the 
inittab is read, but instead checks when it tries to spawn the process on 
that tty...

http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/svn-14606.patch

Dunno if that's relevant to this problem...

Rob
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