From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262195AbVF1W0Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:26:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262196AbVF1WYb (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:24:31 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net ([68.230.241.36]:6613 "EHLO fed1rmmtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261168AbVF1WXN (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:23:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:23:09 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Olaf Hering , Greg KH , Kyle Moffett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs Message-ID: <20050628222309.GB26772@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20050624081808.GA26174@kroah.com> <9EE4350F-5791-4787-950B-14E5C2B9ADB8@mac.com> <20050628074145.GC3577@kroah.com> <20050628195633.GA26131@smtp.west.cox.net> <20050628210804.GA26713@suse.de> <20050628212518.GA26772@smtp.west.cox.net> <42C1CA69.7060901@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42C1CA69.7060901@tls.msk.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:08:41AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:08:04PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > [] > >>>Er, don't you need /dev/console for console output to happen? (And that > >>>it's a good idea to have /dev/null around too). Or has that changed? > >> > >>scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh creates that for every kernel. > > > >I get "Warning: unable to open initial console", so on post 2.6.12 (but > >now stale) git. Does userspace need to be doing something as well? > > Are you using initramfs (cpio archive of the root fs)? > Or "ol'good" initrd (cramfs, romfs, whatever)? I'm just booting the kernel as normal, and assuming that the initramfs that's built by default is used before my real rootfs happens. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/