Re: R: Problem with messages while booting up

Martin Vernon (martin@gw6hva.demon.co.uk)
10 Dec 1996 04:41:16 GMT

Ion Badulescu (ionut@moisil.wal.rhno.columbia.edu) wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Della Betta Filippo wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem..
> > Did you check your /dev directory for console ?
> > If it's not present
> > ln -s /dev/tty0 console
>
> DON'T do that!
>
> console is major 4, minor 0; tty0 is major 4, minor 1.

Odd that, mine isn't :-

news-gb7osp:/dev# ls -l tty0
crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 0 Nov 24 11:27 tty0

All my ttyx minor, follow the tty x, why should tty0 be different ?

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