From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] no /dev/console; /dev/null when booting with initrd of type 'ext2'
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:27:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121016192700.01faa4e8@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121016162825.GA26334@mail.sceen.net>
Dear Richard Braun,
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:28:25 +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:15:36PM +0200, Thierry Bultel wrote:
> > 2) Why does ext2 not work with devtmpfs (the answer is likely
> > somewhere in the kernel sources and I will take a look as well) ?
>
> A common mistake is forgetting to select the "mount devtmpfs at boot
> time" option (CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT).
Yes, but Thierry explicitly said he enabled this option, re-read the
e-mail you're replying to :)
Maybe the devtmpfs mounting done by CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT does not take
place when an initrd is used? I honestly don't know, I don't use initrd
personally.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-16 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-16 14:16 [Buildroot] no /dev/console; /dev/null when booting with initrd of type 'ext2' Thierry Bultel
2012-10-16 14:23 ` Richard Braun
2012-10-16 16:15 ` Thierry Bultel
2012-10-16 16:28 ` Richard Braun
2012-10-16 17:27 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-10-16 17:30 ` Richard Braun
2012-10-16 21:20 ` Peter Korsgaard
2012-10-16 16:09 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-10-17 12:04 ` Thierry Bultel
2012-10-17 21:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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