I'm setting up (well, trying to I guess :-) ) a read-only OpenBSD system to run off a small CF card. Never having done this before, I found an excellent article written by Daniele Mazzocchio (http://www.kernel-panic.it/openbsd/embedded/) to use as my guide. I had a few minor issues crop up, but have been able to work my way through them. However I finally got to one that I am stumped with.
Basically once I boot of my new image, I am able to log into it on the serial console and things look ok. I can also ping the IP address of the unit, but when I try to SSH into it I get the following message: "Server refused to allocate pty" I've checked over my setup and all seems fine as per the instructions. I have all the pty* devices from /dev (which is RO) linked to /var/run/dev (which is in memory), so the problem cannot be that these devices are not writeable. (Actually /var is linked to /tmp/var, where the /tmp directory is in memory and populated by the image from a directory called /template.) Unfortunately this goes a bit beyond my current skill set, so if anyone has any suggestions I really would appreciate the help. BTW, in case it matters. I'm using OpenBSD 4.6 as both the host on which I setup the image and OS on the CF card. The card in question is a 64M SanDisk CF and is being plugged into a Soekris Net4801 box. None of these should make a difference, but you never know... :-) Thanks, Peter
