Subject: Re: ttyE0 on 1.5 - the "installation from Hell"
To: Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. <drk@shore.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/31/2000 13:55:09
Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> >  > Booted, NOT single user. Said "/dev/ttyE0: Device not configured" -
> >>  But I thought I just DID that!
> >
> >I don't think I followed precisely everything you said, but try the
> >following:
> >
> >cd /
> >mount -rw /
> >cd /dev
> >./MAKEDEV all
> >
> >Bob gave this to me when I had a (possibly) similar problem.
> 
> I tried that just now, but although there were no indicated errors, 
> upon reboot I got the same error:
> 
> "getty[174]: /dev/ttyE0: Device not configured"
> 
> (this, of course, is using the new version of /dev/MAKEDEV and /etc/tty)

check your boot message output and make sure that you actually have a
console that configured.  usually there's a line mentioning wsdisplay...

-colin