> In article <E0xg76v-00026V-00@dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk>,
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >I dutifully removed /dev/console, which was a link to tty0, and made the new
> >node, (as I'm sure everyone did when they read the changes in the documentation
> >Didn't work though - I just got lots of complaints from init that it
> >couldn't open /dev/console
>
> Strange - are you sure you did it correctly ? I just booted a vanilla
> 2.1.72 kernel, no serial console compiled in etc, and:
>
> [root](~)> mknod -m 622 console c 5 1
> [root](~)> ll console
> crw--w--w- 1 root root 5, 1 Dec 11 21:19 console
> [root](~)> echo test > console
> test
I only get a 5,1 device if I add "console=tty0" to the lilo command
line, but then again I also got bitten by the "#define VGA_CAN_DO_64KB"
bug -- perhaps your workaround for that one fails to add the VGA screen
to the console_drivers list? Or isn't there supposed to be any console
at all if you don't explicitly add one to the lilo command line?
Cheers,
Sander
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