mknod failures on boot - FC4

David Nedrow listbox at nedron.net
Tue Jun 14 22:08:15 UTC 2005


On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:22 PM, David Nedrow wrote:


> 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.

-David





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