>>>>> "matthew" == matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:

    matthew> i wonder if this is a problem with LINUX nfs devices.
    matthew> could you try removing /dev/console from the NFS root,
    matthew> which will force init(8) to mount an MFS /dev which
    matthew> should work.

Unfortunately the creation of the MFS /dev fails, with a number of no
space left of device and out of inode errors:

warning: no /dev/console
init: Creating mfs /dev (371 blocks, 896 inodes)
uid 0, pid 1520, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
mknod: bpf4: No space left onuid 0, pid 1521, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
 device
mknod: bpf5: No uid 0, pid 1522, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
space left on device
mknod: uid 0, pid 1523, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
bpf6: No space left on device
mknouid 0, pid 1524, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
d: bpf7: No space left onuid 0, pid 1525, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
 device
mknod: tun0: No spuid 0, pid 1526, command mknod, on /dev: out of inodes
ace left on device

[...]

mknod: crypto: No space left on device
mknod: random: No space left on device
mknod: urandom: No space left on device
mknod: systrace: No space left on device
mknod: lkm: No space left on device
mknod: clockctl: No space left on device



Cheers,

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
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