Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 04:41:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: devfs question Message-ID: <20011027043704.F88536-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <12047.1004175127@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >An error message would be sufficient; my concern was that someone > >might run into this and spend hours trying to figure out which of X > >variables was the problem. > > Right, but the only way to get an error message is to let /sbin/init > die and have the kernel print the message. /sbin/init cannot > print the message when there is no "/dev/console" can it ? > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 I'm in over my head on this one; I really don't know anything about the boot process. Having init die if there's no /dev sounds acceptable to me. After all, if there's no /dev, the system looks like it's in trouble. (If this does not make sense, reference above paragraph.) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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