Re: can't exec /usr/libexec/getty for /dev/ttyv1

From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc_at_crodrigues.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:22:19 -0000
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:00:39PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > Forgot to update fstab to mount devfs? 
> 
> In general, devfs should be mounted without the use of fstab -- the kernel
> tries, and if it fails, init tries.  So it could well be that devfs isn't
> mounted, but probably not due to fstab problems.  It would be interesting
> to boot to single-user mode and see what is mounted. 

OK, I booted in as single user.  Only / was  mounted.
This was the output of: ls /dev


acpi		audio0.0	fd0		pci		ttyv5
ad0		audio0.1	geom.ctl	ppi0		ttyv6
ad0s1		bpsm0		io		psm0		ttyv7
ad0s1a		console		kbd0		random		ttyv8
ad0s1b		consolectl	klog		sndstat		ttyv9
ad0s1c		ctty		kmem		stderr		ttyva
ad0s1e		cuaa0		lpt0		stdin		ttyvb
ad0s1f		cuaa1		lpt0.ctl	stdout		ttyvc
ad0s2		cuaia0		mdctl		sysmouse	ttyvd
ad0s2a		cuaia1		mem		ttyd0		ttyve
ad0s2c		cuala0		mixer0		ttyd1		ttyvf
ad0s2e		cuala1		net		ttyid0		urandom
ad0s2f		devctl		net1		ttyid1		usb
ad0s2g		devstat		net2		ttyld0		usb0
ad0s3		dsp0.0		net3		ttyld1		usb1
ad0s3c		dsp0.1		net4		ttyv0		usb2
ad0s3d		dspW0.0		net5		ttyv1		xpt0
agpgart		dspW0.1		network		ttyv2		zero
apm		dspr0.0		nfs4		ttyv3
ata		fd		null		ttyv4


Any ideas?
Thanks.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues        
http://crodrigues.org
rodrigc_at_crodrigues.org
Received on Sat Feb 21 2004 - 14:22:19 UTC

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