Re: d-i on serial console with name != ttyS/tts
* Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> [2006-03-26 17:40]:
> > 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.
Yes, and that won't change soon. We're using udev on 2.6 though and
have a devfs compatability schema. The problem I saw was on 2.6.
> I'm confused: what exactly are you trying to do? (You're using init
> without an inittab, or...?)
inittab contains:
::sysinit:/sbin/debian-installer-startup
::respawn:/sbin/debian-installer
vc/2::askfirst:/bin/sh
vc/3::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/messages
vc/4::respawn:/usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown > /dev/null 2>&1
::restart:/sbin/init
> 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
Oh, great. I'll give that a try. This might solve the original
problem I reported a few weeks ago. I'll get back to you but it will
take a while - I'm leaving for holidays soon (actually,should go to
bed since I've to get up in 2.5 hours again) and then moving to
another country...
Thanks for your response!
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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