From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.188]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB6CDDDF6 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:17:25 +1100 (EST) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e30so1875499fke.9 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:17:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9c789a000811150217o3c08e94ar3f99eda848822e62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:17:23 +0200 From: "Cristian Axenie" To: "Nicholas Mc Guire" , "Joachim Foerster" , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: USB Flash rootfs prep! In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16824_19873885.1226744243174" References: <9c789a000811141705k245e4447k8a9be8e4f180c3f8@mail.gmail.com> <1226737139.17218.14.camel@md40100b.ft> <9c789a000811150112q3088a044ub8b38489b2119a60@mail.gmail.com> <9c789a000811150112i484baa39y846bbf38ed6e1bb8@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , ------=_Part_16824_19873885.1226744243174 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Joachim Foerster >wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Cristian, > > >> > > >> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:05 +0200, Cristian Axenie wrote: > > >> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > >> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k init > > >> > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > > >> > > >> Device file /dev/console doesn't seem to exist in your rootfs. > > > > > > Strange because /dev/console exists in my ext2.img. > > did you check that it is actually a valid character device (c 5 1) ? > it can easaly happend during copying of a tree into your image that > they become regular files. > > hofrat > I think that you are right, butr how can I test this validity?? Cristian ------=_Part_16824_19873885.1226744243174 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@hofr.at> wrote:
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> >
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> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Joachim Foerster <mls.JOFT@gmx.de>wrote:
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> >> Hi Cristian,
> >>
> >> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 03:05 +0200, Cristian Axenie wrote:
> >> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> >> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k init
> >> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >>
> >> Device file /dev/console doesn't seem to exist in your rootfs.
> >
> > Strange because /dev/console exists in my ext2.img.

did you check that it is actually a valid character device (c 5 1) ?
it can easaly happend during copying of a tree into your image that
they become regular files.

hofrat
I think that you are right, butr how can I test this validity??

Cristian
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