From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thierry Bultel Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:15:36 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] no /dev/console; /dev/null when booting with initrd of type 'ext2' In-Reply-To: <20121016142342.GA2131@mail.sceen.net> References: <507D6C50.4060607@wanadoo.fr> <20121016142342.GA2131@mail.sceen.net> Message-ID: <507D8828.4020007@wanadoo.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le 16/10/2012 16:23, Richard Braun a ?crit : > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 04:16:48PM +0200, Thierry Bultel wrote: >> Would the solution be to always have these inodes created in >> 'device_table.txt' ? >> (Works in my case, I do not plan to use the static table) > The devtmpfs "file system" is usually a better approach. > I have CONFIG_TMPFS and , and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT, and it works with everything but initrd of type "ext2" I am thus asking 2 questions to myself 1) Why does the ISO image imply an ext2 initrd , instead of a cpio ? 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) ? Regards Thierry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: