[H-GEN] RH modules (long)
Martin Pool
mbp at meesha.humbug.org.au
Wed May 20 04:31:24 EDT 1998
>Ahh. I didn't know it was refering to a device. I guess the word
>"char" should have been a giveaway.
"major" should have, too. Unix devices are uniquely identified by a major
number and a minor number. You might equally well say
yesmistress# mknod /tmp/myconsole c 4 0
yesmistress# fortune >/tmp/myconsole
to produce output on the console, or
yesmistress# mknod /tmp/mydisk b 3 0
yesmistress# fortune >/tmp/mydisk
for hours of fun to recover your partition table.
>Uhhhh... nope! I figured (incorrectly) that since the machine can
>sense that it is running headless then it should know to do something
>more appropriate with the console.
"Unix does not try to prevent you from doing stupid things, because that
would probably also prevent you from doing clever things."
>Is there any way I can do that through silo.conf? Or possibly
>change the console at some point during boot up? I don't really want
>to lug the machine back to a keyboard and monitor if I can avoid it.
Silo I don't know about. Under lilo, you should put in your lilo.conf
image = /boot/linuz-2.2.0
append = "console=/dev/ttyS1" # add this line
depending on how your console is connected. I guess you could run it
without even a dumb term, but... that's too scary for a first step.
>> /usr/src/linux/./include/linux/major.h:22:#define TTY_MAJOR 4
>
>Now if I only I knew to look in there!
The missing line was
yesmistress$ grep -n MAJOR $(find /usr/src/linux/ -type f)
--
Martin Pool
----------------------- HUMBUG General List --------------------------------
echo "unsubscribe general" | mail majordomo at humbug.org.au # To Unsubscribe
More information about the General
mailing list