Thiemo Seufer wrote:
Nigel Stephens wrote:
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So what could be preventing the new kernel from even running the linuxrc script, or at the very least preventing it from showing the output from the extra "echo" line which I added to it.
This might point to a missing or invalid /dev/console. (At least with udev-managed devices that's not a completely unlikely theory.)
I was a bit worried about this message when I diffed my initrd-2.6.6 and initrd.2.6.8
File initrd-2.6.6/dev/console is a character special file while file initrd-2.6.8/dev/console is a character special file
Looking in detail I see:
shoreditch.root /tmp 2# ls -l initrd-2.6.6/dev/console crw-rw---- 1 root root 5, 1 Jan 1 1970 initrd-2.6.6/dev/console shoreditch.root /tmp 2# ls -l initrd-2.6.8/dev/console crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Jan 1 1970 initrd-2.6.8/dev/console
So the permissions are different, but I can't imagine that would make any difference at this stage of the bootstrap, which must surely be running with a uid of root.
Of course udev may be overwriting this and screwing it up, since I think that 2.6.6 didn't have udev, while 2.6.8 does - is that right? Is there anything that I could add to the boot command line to control udev, or to help diagnose the problem?
Nigel
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