On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:38:10PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/debian-installer$ svn diff -r18429:18430 > Index: installer/build/userdevfs-dev.txt > =================================================================== > --- installer/build/userdevfs-dev.txt (revision 18429) > +++ installer/build/userdevfs-dev.txt (revision 18430) > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ > drwx /dev > -crw- 4,0 /dev/console > +crw- 5,1 /dev/console > crw- 5,0 /dev/tty > crw- 4,64 /dev/ttyS0 > crw- 4,65 /dev/ttyS1 > > I stumbled upon this when trying to get d-i to work on my VME box. It > didn't occur on other architectures, since those that do support a 2.4 > kernel use DevFS anyway; m68k is a corner case in that it doesn't have a > working 2.4 for some of its subarchitectures.
/dev/console is 5,1 per kernel/Documentation/devices.txt. Furthermore, all the other archs also define /dev/console as 5,1 (see installer/build/Makefile). /dev/vc/0 is 4,0 (as we mimic devfs). Are you saying we need something different than everyone else? > > The d-i doesn't work yet, it stops somewhere at switching console to > > UTF, but for me it's a huge success :-) > > Have you tried *not* selecting your preferential language, but using > English instead? > > Also, if you try to use d-i on a 2.2 serial console, you may need the > (not yet released) rootskel 0.89, which can be retrieved from svn. > Without that, you'll get quite a few messages which you probably don't > want to have... Cool, sounds like vme is making some progress. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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