about the 2.6.17 kernel

[Michael S. Zick]

On Sun July 16 2006 01:55, ??Mark wrote:
> Hello,all:
>     There something new about the 2.6.17 kernel hang wiht busybox-1.00.
>     Using the NFS,if in the /nfsroot/dev, mknod console c 5 1,then the
> error message will be:
> 
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Freeing init memory: 92K
> 
>     But if the device number is changed for example mknod console c 5 0,then
> the message will be:
> 
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Freeing init memory: 92K
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> 
>    Could anybody tell me how to deal with it?
>
re-write all *nix?

The kernel identifies the console (and any device) by its
major and minor number - not by its character string "console".

You could call it: "little_frog_that_writes_strange_messages c 5 1"
and it would work just fine (as "console") but calling 5,0 will not.

Mike