On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Petr Stehlik wrote: > V St, 04. 08. 2004 v 16:53, Geert Uytterhoeven pí¨e: > > > > What does it mean when the /dev/console cannot be open? > > > > > And usually our next question is: What does `ls -l /dev/console' say on the > > root file system? > > $ mount root.bin /mnt -t ext2 -o loop > $ ls -l /mnt/dev/console > crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 2002-05-17 00:32 > /mnt/dev/console
That's OK. Next question: why can the kernel not open it? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds