Marty wrote: > It's a udev quirl. You need the device file console in /dev. I usually copy > the device manually after cloning a disk.
=====BEGIN SNIPPET===== # ls -l /dev/console crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Aug 18 09:32 /dev/console # echo 'testing write' >/dev/console testing write # cat - </dev/console testing read testing read ^D # mkdir /test # mount /boot/initrd-CUSTOM.img /test -t cramfs -o loop,ro # ls -l /test/dev/console crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 Aug 22 09:52 /test/dev/console # echo 'testing write' >/test/dev/console testing write # cat - </test/dev/console testing read testing read ^D # dpkg --status udev Package `udev' is not installed and no info is available. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. =====END SNIPPET===== The console files look OK to me. Am I missing something? As you can see, I am not using udev. (Actually I lied in the previous post: I'm using Agnula/DeMuDi 1.2.1, a Debian 3.1 Sarge derivative, instead of Official Debian; so udev is not installed, for whatever reason.) Thanks. ~joel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
