Re: netbooting indy - update, elf2ecoff?

[Klaus Naumann <spock@mgnet.de>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> However, /dev/console must _not_ be a symlink, but a character special device
> with major 5 minor 1 (cfr. Documentation/devices.txt).

Unless you're using Linux/MIPS :)
The console implementation is horrible broken, so
this means that under most circumstances the 5,1 device doesn't
work. So the only option is to make /dev/console a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.

                Cya, Klaus

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