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

Wong Kwok-hon kwokhon at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 06:28:05 UTC 2005


On 6/17/05, David Nedrow <listbox at nedron.net> wrote:
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> On Jun 16, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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> > Am Do, den 16.06.2005 schrieb Wong Kwok-hon um 19:00:
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> >> I would like to get a fix on booting up the kernel and displayed
> >> as follows:
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> >> mknod create failed on /dev/null 17
> >> mknod create failed on /dev/console
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> > Someone else here on the list fixed this kind of issue by updating the
> > BIOS. Please see the list archive.
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> I was the one who thought a firmware update fixed this for me, but I
> had spoken too soon. I was just getting ready to post an update to my
> original thread.
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> The mknod errors on boot still occur for me.
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But my motherboard is too old and no more BIOS update anymore.
And this not happen in Fedora Core 3. So Is it the problem is in Kernel ?


Wong Kwok Hon




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