Mike Stone wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 04:12:21PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > > The real question remains: Should console be a symlink to > > tty0? At least 2.0.35 linux/Documentation/devices.txt says: > [snip] > > jopus:/dev# ls -l console > > crw--w--w- 1 root tty 5, 1 Feb 11 01:03 console > > > > jopus:/dev# ls -l tty0 > > crw--w--w- 1 root tty 4, 0 Feb 15 16:31 tty0 > > How'd this happen? What kernel are you running? The 5,1 device is the new > /dev/console for the 2.2 series kernels--and AFIAK, debian never put it > there. For the older kernels, linking to /dev/tty0 is the usual form.
I got the kernel and /dev files from 2.1.7 install disks. I checked root.bin and it has console correct as 4,0 major,minor. However, it looks like base2_1.tgz has /dev/console as 5,1. I also checked 2.1.6 disks and they are correct. See below: % pwd /mnt/local/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/2.1.6-1999-01-30 % tar -ztvf base2_1.tgz |egrep 'dev/(console|tty0)' lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1999-01-30 12:21 dev/console -> tty0 crw--w--w- root/tty 4,0 1999-01-30 12:21 dev/tty0 % cd ../2.1.7-1999-02-11 % tar -ztvf base2_1.tgz |egrep 'dev/(console|tty0)' crw--w--w- root/tty 4,0 1999-02-11 01:03 dev/tty0 crw--w--w- root/tty 5,1 1999-02-11 01:03 dev/console I guess we need 2.1.8 disks too. I sent Cc: to debian-boot too. > Mike Stone // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
