Package: rootskel Version: 1.62 Severity: normal I tried to install Debian on Versatile/PB using qemu and the armel installer (Lenny beta 1). It is quickly stuck complaining "cttyhack: '/dev/ttyS0': No such file or device".
That's because the serial port on Versatile is named ttyAMA0. I ran qemu with -nographic and put console=ttyAMA0 on the command line. This causes two problems: 1. Initially there is a /dev/ttyS0 but it is device 4/0. ttyAMA0 is 204/64. I could recreate it from the second debug shell or by appending to init-udev-devices. 2. When udev runs, it recreates /dev. udev successfully creates /dev/ttyAMA0 with the proper major/minor. But it naturally does not create /dev/ttyS0. So that doesn't work either and I created the symlink by replacing 'exit 0' with 'ln -s ttyAMA0 /dev/ttyS0' at the end of S02udev. Frans warns that finish-install's 90console script may also have a problem. I haven't gotten there yet. I don't know a clean fix for this problem. It could be detected by checking /proc/devices, most likely - there's ttyAMA but no ttyS. On a related note, I thought cttyhack was supposed to give things enough of a controlling terminal to use job control. But cttyhack /bin/sh still complains that there is no job control... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
