Subject: Re: PR 7170 -- init and /dev/console
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Shelby <snoonan@tbearsiberians.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/30/2001 09:01:23
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:01:19AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Have you EVER seen a case where /dev/console was missing but disk
> > devices were present? I have no doubt that you'll say `yes', but *I*
> > haven't, ever, under any circumstance. The only case in which it's
> > even really plausible is file system corruption.
>
> Just for fun I'll say "no, but..." :-)
>
> Remember that users with fat fingers (and/or with misconceptions) can
> cause infinitely more interesting scenarios than random corruption! :-)
Actualy I had just the opposite happen the disk devices went bad.
Did the create mem fs, populate with dev entries, mount over /dev,
then went on to multi-user (network) and pull everything off.
> Greg A. Woods
Shelby