mknod failures on boot - FC4

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Jun 14 20:57:58 UTC 2005


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.
> 
> The boot completes for runlevel 3, though it hangs if I try to go  into 
> runlevel 5.

If you have rhgb enabled, disable it so you can provide more information 
as to where it hangs in runlevel 5....

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