Re: console problem

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 03:53:25PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > So, I tried to install NetBSD 3.1 in a Xen 3.1 HVM running
> > > over Ubuntu Gutsy X86_64. The NetBSD installer fails during
> > > kernel boot because it can't find /dev/console.
> 
> Can you report the exact error messages, and what you did to get the
> error.  (I don't know what you mean by "the NetBSD installer" -- is is a
> CD-ROM image, a kernel, or something else, and where did it some from?)
> 
> > that's expected: init should mount a tmpfs over /dev and create the
> > devices here. I guess your problem is that it doesn't start init ...
> 
> No, I think init's being started; otherwise you'd get "panic: no init".

Or it hangs before starting init.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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