Bug#298787: no need to mount devfs in initrd

2005-05-04 Thread Alex Owen
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > in my experience, if you do not mount /mnt/dev from the initrd, you get > > > a message saying that it was unable to write to /dev/console.. > > upon further consideration, i think the reason it fails to write to > /dev/console is that the nfs fil

Bug#298787: no need to mount devfs in initrd

2005-05-03 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
> > in my experience, if you do not mount /mnt/dev from the initrd, you get > > a message saying that it was unable to write to /dev/console.. upon further consideration, i think the reason it fails to write to /dev/console is that the nfs filesystem is mounted read-only. even though there is a

Bug#298787: no need to mount devfs in initrd

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Owen
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > in my experience, if you do not mount /mnt/dev from the initrd, you get > a message saying that it was unable to write to /dev/console.. maybe > only when you chroot to /mnt... but this is necessary for some of the > initrd-netboot scripts to work. M

Bug#298787: no need to mount devfs in initrd

2005-05-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
> I don't see a need to mount devfs in the netboot-initrd. > /sbin/init does a conditional mount of devfs in the nfs(ch)root > just before pivot_root which seems sane. lessdisk seems to produce a sane > chroot in that /dev is populated and any non-lessdisk chroot should (in my > opinion) also have

Bug#298787: no need to mount devfs in initrd

2005-05-01 Thread Alex Owen
I don't see a need to mount devfs in the netboot-initrd. /sbin/init does a conditional mount of devfs in the nfs(ch)root just before pivot_root which seems sane. lessdisk seems to produce a sane chroot in that /dev is populated and any non-lessdisk chroot should (in my opinion) also have a sane /de