Very good work! But I can't build any image of elkscmd, because it give 
this error:

"/bin/sh: compress: command not found".. I could not realize where 
compress command is called from.

(Error: "
*
* Building image: comb
*
umount ./../elkscmd/comb >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
dd if=/dev/zero of=./../elkscmd/comb bs=1024 count=720 2>/dev/null
/sbin/mkfs.minix -n14 ./../elkscmd/comb 720 >/dev/null
mkdir -p /mnt/elks
mount -o loop ./../elkscmd/comb /mnt/elks
(cd ./../elkscmd/rootfs_template; \
tar cf - --exclude CVS --exclude .keep *) | \
(cd /mnt/elks; tar xpf -)
for i in sys_utils ash bc byacc disk_utils file_utils levee m4 minix1 
minix2 minix3 misc_utils mtools sash sh_utils inet; do make -C $i 
min_rfs||exit 1; done >/dev/null
/bin/sh: compress: command not found
make[2]: *** [install] Error 127
make[1]: *** [_populate_target] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eddy/elks/CVS/elkscmd'
make: *** [comb] Error 2
")

P.s.: I attach again my patch for elks makefile etc., now I had the time 
to try it, and it works.. you can also accept just part of this.. as you 
want, but at least the correction in arch/i86/drivers/char/KeyMaps/mkcfg 
that now make menuconfig to crash if you enter in character device menu.

About menuconfig I noticed that there is an error: in multi-choice menu, 
if you press escape, instead of return at the parent menu, it  shows 
help, this is not a big problem because you can just press enter to 
solve it, but if there is a number choice, it enter in a continuous loop 
as also the enter key shows help.


Claudio Matsuoka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm commiting these to the CVS repository. Previous code had the
> strange effect of starting the console at the second VT and not
> executing the shell. The first problem was caused because ELKS wants
> tty1 to be minor 0 and not minor 1 like Linux, and the other because
> the Minix file loader was not able to load files with total size
> (minus 32 byte header) larger than a 16-bit integer -- I wonder how it
> worked in older versions.
>
> Here are the patches:
>
> To elks:
>
> Index: fs/minix/file.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/elks/elks/fs/minix/file.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -u -r1.11 file.c
> --- fs/minix/file.c    22 Jun 2002 09:28:20 -0000    1.11
> +++ fs/minix/file.c    20 Aug 2006 22:02:59 -0000
> @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@
>                char *buf, size_t icount)
> {
>     struct buffer_head *bh;
> -    loff_t offset, size;
> -    size_t chars, count = (icount % 65536), left;
> +    loff_t offset, size, left;
> +    size_t chars, count = (icount % 65536);
>     int read;
>     block_t block, blocks;
>
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
>      *      Amount we can do I/O over
>      */
>
> -    left = (offset > size) ? 0 : (size_t) (size - offset);
> +    left = (offset > size) ? 0 : size - offset;
>
>     if (left > count)
>     left = count;
> Index: init/main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/elks/elks/init/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.25
> diff -u -r1.25 main.c
> --- init/main.c    31 May 2004 13:49:25 -0000    1.25
> +++ init/main.c    20 Aug 2006 22:02:59 -0000
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
> #ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_SERIAL
>     num = sys_open("/dev/ttyS0", 2, 0);
> #else
> -    num = sys_open("/dev/tty0", 2, 0);
> +    num = sys_open("/dev/tty1", 2, 0);
> #endif
>
>     if (num < 0)
>
>
> To elkscmd:
>
> Index: rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/elks/elkscmd/rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -r1.7 MAKEDEV
> --- rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV    28 Jul 2004 13:58:35 -0000    1.7
> +++ rootfs_template/dev/MAKEDEV    20 Aug 2006 22:11:32 -0000
> @@ -109,7 +109,14 @@
> # used to use the node numbers these now use. However, it is expected 
> that
> # this restriction can be removed in the near future.
>
> -    $MKSET  0 3  $MKDEV tty c 4    # Currently
> +# CM: ELKS wants tty1 to be minor 0, so we can't use $MKSET
> +
> +    mknod tty1 c 4 0
> +    mknod tty2 c 4 1
> +    mknod tty3 c 4 2
> +    mknod tty4 c 4 3
> +
> +#    $MKSET  0 3  $MKDEV tty c 4    # Currently
> #    $MKSET  0 15 $MKDEV tty c 4    # Soon to be
>
> # Serial ports, as detected by the ROM BIOS.
> @@ -134,6 +141,11 @@
> #    $MKSET  0 15 $MKDEV loop c 7
>
> ############################################################################## 
>
> +# TCPDEV, used by ktcp
> +
> +    mknod tcpdev c 8 0
> +
> +############################################################################## 
>
> # SCSI disks. These are not yet supported.
>
> #    $MKSET   0 15 $MKDEV sda b 8
> Index: rootfs_template/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/elks/elkscmd/rootfs_template/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -r1.3 rc.sysinit
> --- rootfs_template/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit    15 Jul 2002 05:26:36 
> -0000    1.3
> +++ rootfs_template/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit    20 Aug 2006 22:11:32 -0000
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
> #
>
> localip=192.168.1.100
> -sliptty=/dev/ttys0
> +sliptty=/dev/ttyS0
> ttybaud=4800
>
> if test -f /bin/ktcp
> -
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