Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:59:07 +0200 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty* |
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Hi!
Am 16.07.2013 17:54, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > Hi, > > So, I was trying to boot User-Mode Linux with a modern rootfs with > systemd on it, and found that it wouldn't present me a prompt. I dug > further, and found out that getty is not able to open /dev/tty1; I > then tried the console-getty.service (which uses /dev/console), and it > worked. The reason it doesn't work out of the box is that systemd is > not able to figure out whether or not a virtual console subsystem is > present: /dev/tty0 is present for some reason (although I'm not sure > it's a virtual console), and this confuses systemd. > > So, my question is: does um Linux have a virtual console subsystem? > If so, then why doesn't it seem to work? If not, why does /dev/tty0 > exist?
UML does not have CONFIG_VT. But recent systemd versions can deal with that.
Thanks, //richard
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