On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:55:58 +0200 (CEST)
Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:


> > Any idea how the floppy ramdisk can generate all the dev files on the 
> > fly ?
> 
> Put (only)  a MAKEDEV into dev/, and NetBSD's init(8) will DTRT.
> Just make sure everything needed by MAKEDEV is there (mknod, chown, chmod, 
> chgrp, ...).

Thanks Hubert.
Everything worked fine now, the kernel boots, executes init and then /etc/rc
Seemed like I forgot one binary needed by MAKEDEV.
A part of dmesg:

root file system type: ffs                       
warning: no /dev/console  
init: Creating mfs /dev (374 blocks, 896 inodes)

Now a new problem (as if I did not have enough of them before).
This is what happens when /etc/rc finished executing.

Apr  2 23:06:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/console: Exec format error
Apr  2 23:06:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyE1: Exec format error

etc etc...
I can execute the getty binary directly in my build dir and then I get a login prompt and can login to my build computer just fine.
/etc/gettytab and image/etc/ttys are also in place.

I am so close to a login prompt I can allmost smell it...  :)



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Regards,
M. Jessa
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