Device types

Device types

[Tom McCabe]

Once again, in the rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV script,
the mknod command is invoked with device type d. There
is no device type d; there are device types b
(buffered/block) and c/u (unbufferred/character).

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ELKS Patches

[Jody]

Notice:

Because of the fact that CVS for ELKS is totally and completely broken 
for anonymous usage, please send all ELKS patches to the following address:

elks@jodybruchon.com

This way, I can make the fixes to the source and periodically release 
it.  I do not have a CVS or SVN server to host from, and once I figure 
out how in the hell the CVS got busted, the changes can be committed in 
one burst.  I managed to use my developer access and shell account to 
checkout a copy of the ELKS CVS tree, which I will make available 
shortly, but I can't seem to figure out for the life of me how the CVS 
was mangled for anonymous pserver access.

If you can provide actual patch files I can apply with the patch 
command, that would be most helpful.

Thanks!
Jody Bruchon

ELKS Patches

[Jody]

The patches are rolling in to clean up ELKS.

I managed to get the current ELKS to compile and boot on one of my 
laptops, but it didn't like the root disk I provided.

I used a Minix floppy from the EDE package, but ELKS says this:

fd: probing disc in /dev/fd0
fd: /dev/fd0 probably has 19 sectors and 80 cylinders
MINIX-fs: mounting unchecked filesystem, running fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem)
Loading init
sys_execve("/bin/init",args,18) => -2.
Unable to open /dev/tty (error 2)
dup failed
No init - running /bin/sh

panic: No init or sh found
apparent call stack:

--snip--

And it tells me the system is locked, press C_A_D and so on.

What the heck is "dup failed?"