no keyboard with busybox-1.19.2 and kernel 2.6.38.8

[Eial Czerwacki]

On 11/21/2011 03:30 PM, Eial Czerwacki wrote:

> On 11/21/2011 03:21 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Eial Czerwacki <eial at scalemp.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/16/2011 08:39 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday 14 November 2011 15:35, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to boot a image based on kernel 2.6.38.8 and busybox 1.19.2
>>>>> but I don't seem to have keyboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> dmesg shows Warning: unable to open an initial console. and /dev/console
>>>>> do exists see:
>>>>>
>>>>> ls -l /dev/console
>>>>> crw-r--r--    1 root     root        5,   2 Nov 14 13:57 /dev/console
>>>>
>>>> It's wrong. Should be 5,1 - not 5,2
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Denys,
>>>
>>> I've switched it from 5,2 to 5,1 and I still get that warning and the
>>> keyboard doesn't work.
>>>
>>> does it matters if I create the node in the initrd or at the boot time?
>>
>> The good start would be to ensure that /dev/console exists (and is correct)
>> on both filesystems.
>>
> 
> 
> but if I create it in initrd and later run makedev, it won't be created
> because it already exists.
> 
> I've already tried that, I also can verify that using both approaches
> /dev/console exists.
> 
> Eial.
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Denys,

do you have any ideas on how to solve this issue?

I'm really out of idea.

Eial.