mknod failures on boot - FC4

David Nedrow listbox at nedron.net
Fri Jun 17 06:03:21 UTC 2005


On Jun 14, 2005, at 6:08 PM, David Nedrow wrote:

>
> On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:22 PM, David Nedrow wrote:
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>
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>> Anyone know the reason for the following boot errors?
>>
>> mknod: failed to create /dev/console
>> mknod: failed to create /dev/null
>> mknod: failed to create /dev/zero
>>
>> This is with FC4 running on an older Compaq SMART-2SL array.
>>
>>
>
> Aha! After upgrading the Compaq SMART-2SL firmware from 4.16 to  
> 4.50, the mknod failures at boot went away.

Spoke too soon. Upgrading the firmware did NOT (unfortunately) fix  
this for me. :(

-David




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