Booting infomation gone???

Naib · Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: Booting infomation gone???

hi I have decided to go over to udev from devsf and that went without a problem

however, now when I boot I no longer get the service status ie

Start eth0 [OK]

info after all the kernel output.
I like having that stuff there and it is very handy if something goes wrong.

What do I have to do to get it back please?

Naib · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:41 am Post subject:

*bump*

Also I am able to open a console when booted (or CTRL-ALT-F1 to a virtual) and start/stop a service from /etc/init.d with no problems and I get the green

[OK] infomation.

Also when I shutdown I get the init stopping service information, so init and trhe scripts are fine, it is just at boot they are not shown.

All I get is the Kernel boot info, then nothing extra until init has finished and a login prompt apears (then X starts).

Please how do I get this useful info back? is there an option in the kernel I didn't set?

Naib · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

There isn't a hidden option somewhere to re-direct teh output of the init scripts to /dev/null is there?

codergeek42 · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:55 pm Post subject:

Do you get an error in your dmesg to the effect of "WARNING: unable to open an initial console"?
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Naib · Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

nop all is fine

I was on IRC last night and some1 said it sounds like framebuffer is taking some time to load up.

I'm going to recompile with no framebuffer to see if it is that.

Does anyone know of a prob with udev and frambuffer?

Naib · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject:

Well I have sorted it.

It was to do with switching to udev.
Basically I forgot to make the "null" and "mesage" character device in /dev.

This basically stopped all output until udev made one (Very late on in th eboot process)
luckily I keep a gentoo liveCD always around.

Booted it mounted my root FS and made the nodes in root.

chears

Why doesnt the making of these file's happen when devFS or udev is installed.
Also the fact the an actual device had to be made goes against the point of udev.
Why does it take soo long to create these two devices