Re: net boot installation stops with "openpty() failed"

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

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:29:09AM +0100, Alexander Bartolich wrote:
> - "sparc/installation/netboot/rootfs.tgz
>   Extracted with GNU tar 1.22 to a XFS file system
>   Tar spits out the following errors:
> 
>   tar: ./dev/dtyC00: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: ./dev/dtyC01: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: ./dev/dtya: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: ./dev/dtyb: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: ./dev/dtyc: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: ./dev/dtyd: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: ./dev/tap: Cannot mknod: Invalid argument
>   tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

that would be your problem I guess. The NFS root is missing some
devices. Maybe a limitation on device numbers on linux/XFS ?

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