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Bug#385730: usplash: Fail to start because /dev/null is missing



On Sep 02, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:

> I just tested usplash in qemu using the latest sid packages and kernel
> 2.6.17.  It failed to start complaining that /dev/null was missing.
> I'm not sure why, but a fix is to create the device in the
> init-top/usplash script before starting usplash.  Hree is a patch to
/dev/null is currently created by udev-udeb.
If /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S02udev is not the first script run
at boot time then some other package needs to create static /dev/null and
/dev/console (if for some reason they cannot be part of the root image).

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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