mknod create failed on /dev/null, /dev/console

[Neal Becker]

Wong Kwok-hon wrote:

> On 6/17/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
>> Am Do, den 16.06.2005 schrieb Wong Kwok-hon um 19:00:
>> 
>> > I would like to get a fix on booting up the kernel and displayed as
>> > follows:
>> >
>> > mknod create failed on /dev/null 17
>> > mknod create failed on /dev/console
>> >
>> > My FC4 is upgraded from FC3...
>> 
>> > Wong Kwok Hon
>> 
>> Someone else here on the list fixed this kind of issue by updating the
>> BIOS. Please see the list archive.
>> 
> 
> But my motherboard is old and no bios update now.
> The motherboard is Pentium 3 only.
> 
> 
> Wong Kwok Hon
> 

I seriously doubt this has to do with bios update.  I see the same thing on
my quite recent compaq r3000z.  I'm also pretty sure I didn't see it until
some very recent update on FC4, like today.