Bug#355074: [Yaird-devel] Bug#355074: yaird fails to load /dev/console for luks cryptoroot

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:52:37 -0800 (PST)
Mark Hedges <hedges at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> I do get a prompt to type the luks password.  Yay!
> 
> But immediately I see:
> 
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Switching root ...
> /usr/lib/yaird/exec/run_init: opening console: No such file or
> directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> It would appear that yaird is not putting the console device in?

When manually creating a boot environment, you need also to manually
copy/create the needed device nodes. It is too complicated for yaird to
deal with device nodes (could be udev, could be udev now but not at
next boot, could be... Just too complicated).


Hope that helps.


 - Jonas

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