Re: /dev/console should it always be available?

From: Rick Hohensee (humbubba@smarty.smart.net)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 04:50:55 EST


(Mike Panetta <mpanetta@realminfo.com>...)
>Well... This patch seems to do nothing... :(
>none of the console= lines I pass to the kernel with lilo seem to work.
>To help facilitate debugging I tried:
> append="console=null console=lp console=tty"
>And that didnt seem to do anything... I still get "cannot open initial
>console"
>in the logs... An on the lp (I turned on lp message logging in the
>kernel).

Not a solution, but something else to play with, make /dev/console
a link to /dev/lp0. No input, but plenty of output.

Rick Hohensee
(waiting for the printhead on the Model 37 to drop...)

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