Re: no console with current (bk) kernel

[James H. Cloos Jr.]

>>>>> "Miquel" == Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> and yet the boot fails with a complaint that it cannot open a
>> console, followed by a reboot.  (Too fast to copy anything down.)

>> What am I missing?

Miquel> A root filesystem ;)

Miquel> Looks like the kernel cannot open /dev/console.

That was it.  Box runs gentoo and is still using devfs; somehow
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT got lost from my default config....

Thanks.

-JimC

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