From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty*
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:59:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E56DCB.3040108@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0k2BsoxwMLHSWmmrFXkvMBiWDG1b0NXrfR6i95=tFPMXw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
Am 16.07.2013 17:54, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra:
> Hi,
>
> So, I was trying to boot User-Mode Linux with a modern rootfs with
> systemd on it, and found that it wouldn't present me a prompt. I dug
> further, and found out that getty is not able to open /dev/tty1; I
> then tried the console-getty.service (which uses /dev/console), and it
> worked. The reason it doesn't work out of the box is that systemd is
> not able to figure out whether or not a virtual console subsystem is
> present: /dev/tty0 is present for some reason (although I'm not sure
> it's a virtual console), and this confuses systemd.
>
> So, my question is: does um Linux have a virtual console subsystem?
> If so, then why doesn't it seem to work? If not, why does /dev/tty0
> exist?
UML does not have CONFIG_VT.
But recent systemd versions can deal with that.
Thanks,
//richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 15:54 [QUERY] User-Mode Linux and /dev/tty* Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 15:59 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2013-07-16 16:03 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 16:10 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-07-16 16:26 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-16 16:34 ` Richard Weinberger
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