Re: repeated failure to properly shutdown

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:37:56AM -0700, bch wrote:
> How does that happen, how does one fix it ?

It is created by init if there is no /dev/console.

Boot some install media, mount your root file system (say on /mnt)
then: 

	cd /mnt/dev
	sh MAKEDEV all

(hoping there is a MAKEDEV script there, if not: extract it from etc.tgz
from the install sets)

Then reboot and check mount again.

Martin