Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Boot failure, 2.6.10-rc2 (resolved) | From | Bob Gill <> | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:47:25 -0700 |
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Ok, thanks, I can get 2.6.10-rc2 to boot/run. I didn't need devfs to build new kernels in Fedora Core 2 (and devfs is marked as obsolete), but the new distribution -FC3- needs devfs to run. Thanks, Bob
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 21:24 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> How, after all, did you run into this error? Directly after upgrading (if > >> applicable)? > >No, [...] but I prefer to run my own custom kernels. > (So the post here is justified) > > >Thanks for your reply though. Your question as to whether /dev/console > >exists at boot time is making me question whether /dev/console exists at > >boot time. > > You could find out by taking a live distro and checking. That's because I > suspect your old kernel, which probably still works, to contain ~~ something > magical ~~ that /dev/console is created at the right time. > devfs probably? > > > Jan Engelhardt -- Bob Gill <gillb4@telusplanet.net>
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