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